Nvidia To Unveil AMD-Centric MCP72 Chipset

In what is great news for AMD fans, it looks like Nvidia will soon be releasing a feature packed chipset for AMD processors. Dailytech has reported that Nvidia in the near future will be shipping a new chipset for AMD processors. This new chipset has been codenamed MCP72 and will be NVIDIA's first HyperTransport 3.0, or HT3, compatible chipset and a successor to the current nForce 500-series MCP and the upcoming AMD MCP68 chipsets.

The MCP72 will feature support for AMD's socket AM2, HT3 enabled AM2+ and Socket AM2+ series of processors. It will also support AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 Agena and Opteron Budapest quad-core processors. The MCP72 is also expected to feature PCIe 2.0, which would make it perfect for the upcoming graphic cards from Nvidia's own stables and rival AMD/ATI. Finally the MCP72 will retain the dual gigabit Ethernet from the current nForce 500 series and will have six SATA 2.0 ports.

The emergence of the MCP72, we hope marks an AMD return in the price vs performance struggle. AMD has been struggling and lagging behind Intel since the emergence of the Core2Duo Platform.