NVidias secret crush.

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From MegaGames

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The chipset is rumoured to be in development at Nvidia, initially for the Athlon or Duron. As soon as Nvidia gets a licensing deal with Intel, it will begin work on a chipset for the PIII and Celeron.

The spec of the as yet unconfirmed chipset, which would be Nvidia's first, looks like this:

DDR Memory (two versions to be implemented - but we'll discuss that later)
Socket-A support, 266Mhz bus (a P!!! version is in the planning stages)
Integrated GeForce2 MX 3D core
4x AGP
New MCP-1 SouthBridge to be used

The Crush is basically NVIDIA's first foray into the chipset arena. It looks to be a really cutting-edge design - and I'm sure it'll appeal to a wide spectrum of the PC enthusiast market.

There are two versions of the 'board that will become available - one will have a 64-bit memory bus, and the other will use a 128-bit pathway. Both will be able to use either PC1600 (200Mhz) DDR memory or PC2100 (266Mhz) RAM - although the 128-bit version will require you to have your DIMMs arranged in pairs (a'la the old EDO way).

The motherboard will also have an on-board GeForce2MX controller, although details of it's implementation are unavailable - for example, whether it will utilize shared or dedicated memory, the amount of RAM it has (if it does have it's own dedicated set), whether or not it supports Twin-View and also the core clock speed. There are rumors that future versions of Crush will utilize an NV17 core, although this can't be confirmed at the present time.

Of course - the GeForce2 MX on-board can be disabled by simply using an AGP card in the provided slot. On the other hand, if you have a PCI video card you might even be able to use a twin monitor configuration!

Crush will be available sometime around April~May of 2001. NVIDIA will probably introduce this chipset either at the end of this month, or at the beginning of December. </font>

from megagames source

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Over the last few hours, you might've seen this phrase mentioned on the News pages of a few hardware review websites - and were wondering.....

Is this the mysterious chipset that's been spoken of before? (Most notably on TomsHardware)

Well - YES!

The Crush is a secret chipset that NVIDIA's been working on for the Athlon/Duron processors - and from the looks of it, it's going to be built from the ground up as a pure gaming solution -

Here's a list of specs that have surfaced so far -

DDR Memory (two versions to be implemented - but we'll discuss that later)

Socket-A support, 266Mhz bus (a P!!! version is in the planning stages)

Integrated GeForce2 MX 3D core

4X AGP slot

New MCP-1 SouthBridge to be used

Give me more info!
The Crush is basically NVIDIA's first foray into the chipset arena. It looks to be a really cutting-edge design - and I'm sure it'll appeal to a wide spectrum of the PC enthusiast market.

There are two versions of the 'board that will become available - one will have a 64-bit memory bus, and the other will use a 128-bit pathway. Both will be able to use either PC1600 (200Mhz) DDR memory or PC2100 (266Mhz) RAM - although the 128-bit version will require you to have your DIMMs arranged in pairs (a'la the old EDO way).


The motherboard will also have an on-board GeForce2MX controller, although details of it's implementation are unavailable - for example, whether it will utilize shared or dedicated memory, the amount of RAM it has (if it does have it's own dedicated set), whether or not it supports Twin-View and also the core clock speed. There are rumors that future versions of Crush will utilize an NV17 core, although this can't be confirmed at the present time.

Of course - the GeForce2 MX on-board can be disabled by simply using an AGP card in the provided slot.
On the other hand, if you have a PCI video card you might even be able to use a twin monitor configuration!

MCP-1
Arguably the most interesting feature of this motherboard, MCP-1 is supposed to be the very same SouthBridge that will also be present on Microsoft's X-Box. The MCP-1 will have a peak throughput of 800MB/s, UDMA 100 support, 5 PCI slots, 2 USB ports, an integrated 10/100 Ethernet controller as well as an on-board ACR riser.

Future versions of Crush will have USB 2.0 support and possibly even Wake-On-LAN.

What's the estimated shipping date of Crush-based motherboards?
Crush will be available sometime around April~May of 2001

When will NVIDIA officially announce this chipset?
NVIDIA will probably introduce this chipset either at the end of this month, or at the beginning of December

Is this a joke? Are you fibbing?
No!


I have confirmed this info with a couple of industry insiders (who wish to remain anonymous) who have told me that this story is really true -

I saw a couple of posts at leading review websites, and I wanted to write this quick piece before the rumors get outta' hand -
Crush looks like an excellent chipset, but I didn't want users to get wrong information about it from sources that get their technical specs all mixed up (it has happened in the past, you know....)

If you wish to add something to what I've said, or want to discuss this issue further, feel free to email me -
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Coolie Boolies, but I don't know why they both called it a secret. Details have been floating around for the last month.

Guess it's liked Nvidia's "Leaked" drivers...Oh no! How did they get out?...etc.