Nvidia recently reaffirmed its desire to remain in the chipset market despite the more than lukewarm success of the nForce 790i. This is now confirmed by a slide put online by Expreview.
We learn that the Californian company will launch an nForce 770i at the end of the year which will actually be a “castrated” 790i or rather limited to DDR3-1333 and 2-way SLI support. Other sources indicate that its overclocking potential will also be reduced. However, this is nothing dramatic as it wasn’t the strong point of its bigger sibling.
Sold for an attractive price, it may allow Nvidia to glean a few market shares if it proves to be sufficiently robust and if SLI gains in interest compared to Crossfire. The latter is open to Intel chipsets and has benefited from the arrival of the Radeon HD 4800.
