NVIDIA's GeForce 9400/9300 Chipset Review: IGP for Intel

news · October 15, 2008

NVIDIA's MCP7A chipset has been in development for quite a long time and was

in fact implemented in the MacBooks just yesterday. Now we can finally tell

you all about the desktop variant of this chipset and how it beats out

Intel's G45 solution quite handily.

Quote: "The introduction of the most recent NVIDIA chipset with integrated

graphics for the Intel platform has been expected for quite some time. Code

named the MCP7A, news of the chipset goes back to the middle of 2007 when we

actually thought we would see it before the end of that year. Obviously

some delays happened, either on the technical or legal side of things, and

the product was delayed long enough for us to be writing about it officially

for the first time in October of 2008. In fact, it is that delay that

actually gave AMD's 780G chipset the IGP edge; but that isn't exactly

relevant while we are talking about Intel-based platforms today.

Obviously the biggest news about the MCP7A product came with the official

announcement yesterday of Apple adopting the chipset in their entire line up

of new MacBook and MacBook Pro offerings - something I have been predicting

since July.

But just as important to us is the release of the desktop variant of this

chipset, now officially known as the GeForce 9400 and 9300 Motherboard GPUs

(I really can't stand that term) that we are reviewing today. We actually

had three different mATX motherboards from MSI, Zotac and ASUS show up for

our testing, all which will get some attention today.

Thanks for a post!

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com

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