JAYDEEJOHN :
Dont forget the ocing being done on the 780G, which looked like almost 60% on the Toms review
I like having an integrated GPU for board setup purposes. In fact, I have an ASUS 780G board at home just waiting for a Phenom 9850. I usually get a new build stable with the IGP before setting up my graphics card.
That said, the new power saving modes that both AMD and Nvidia are bringing out are great. I'd like to see an IGP on the upcoming AMD 890 boards next summer. All market segments should have motherboards with power saving. The 10 watts at idle of the 780G sure beats simply clocking down the discrete GPU.
The only Nvidia chipset I've owned was on an MSI board, and I really didn't like the budget 405 chipset with 8x PCIe. So, I switched the 4600+ to the 690V in my sig, and that was just a stopgap till 780G and B3.
The only thing an Nvidia chipset brings is SLI at the high end, they don't perform as well as ATI for AMD or Intel for Intel. Nvidia chipsets beat Via's and that's all. So, it's no wonder they're doing chipsets for Via right now.
If Nvidia was smart, they'd not have nixed a merger with AMD, which is why AMD bought ATI instead. If Nvidia were smart, they'd have made the 9800gx2 on one PCB, and if they were smart they'd be working towards competing with Intel and AMD in the CPU field with a Fusion style product.
If they were smart, they'd not have tried to charge Intel for SLI, but ensured their dual graphics card solution was available on Intel motherboards. If they were smart, they'd have traded SLI for either a new x86 license or Intel permission to buy Via along with their old Cyrix license. IMHO, Nvidia's not smart right now because their huge discrete GPU market share has made them complacent.
People here bashed Ruiz to no end, but the guy who's really made bad business decisions for his company has been Huang. IMHO, Nvidia engineering is usually smart, but their overall approach is complacency with dinosaur GPU's. That can hurt them just like it hurt AMD. The rumors say it already has in regards to a chipset licence for Nehalem.