I'm a bit weary about how everything is built in to the board... most custom system builders shy away from such a thing. It seems like the OEM release of motherboards, which scares me a little. I think I would buy the board just because of how it handles DDR ram (*drooling over the 4 gig transfer*) but is a built in GForce2 necessary, not to mention the sound hardware? The latest review of Crush stated that it was like getting a sound card "for free", which I highly doubt is feasible - this is supposed to be the most powerful sound technology on the market, so I'm sure they had to liscense it/develop it from Microsoft, not to mention the price of the hardware.
If this board is 50$ more than the same boards out there because of its graphics card and sound card (this is when hypothetically, a bunch of boards are out based on its technology) then I'm going to be angry at Nvidia for adding on these features without a barebones version of the board, letting us pick and choose what we want. By the end of the summer I would be looking for a GeForce3 in my computer, so if I bought this board and knew I paid an extra 20$ for it because of the built in Geforce 2 (at 20$ thats a great price, don't get me wrong) I would be angry - its like buying a car and paying extra for the nice tires, and going home and putting better tires that you already bought on the car.
Also, will Asus etc. be producing motherboards with the DDRam transfer technology? If they come out at the same time as the Nforce, I would rather buy a barebones version from then to avoid the annoyances stated above, as Nvidia seems to have produced an "all-in-one" perfect for OEM systems board, but not for custom system builders. I do hope they offer a minimum featured board; I'd also rather use my existing lan card if their lan technology adds to the overall price =)
And whoever posted about Nvidia producing a CPU, I think that would be a bad idea because AMD has experience and is doing well, and if Nvidia rivaled them they wouldn't work together anymore, and if Nvidia was successful they would own a large, large chunk of the computing market (graphics, sound, motherboards, and CPUs) which would probably end up like macintosh somehow. Macintosh had control of everything, producing every piece of their own hardware - that spells less competition and fewer "new ideas".
Just my inputs...
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