Zoals bekend zal nVidia in de nabije toekomst de moederbord chipset wereld binnen stampen. De eerste chipset van nVidia zal zoals ook bekend is ondersteuning bieden voor DDR (PC1600/PC2100) geheugen, maar wat nieuw is dat dit volgens x-bit labs dual channel zal zijn . Dit houd in dat de geheugensnelheid theoretisch ongeveer wordt verdubbeld, maar heeft ook het nadeel dat je reepjes alleen per twee kan plaatsen. Dit idee is niet nieuw: het wordt bijvoorbeeld ook gebruikt bij de i840 chipset van Intel met behulp van Rambus geheugen, waar het overigens prima werkt:
We ve found out some details concerning mainboards chipsets that NVIDIA is about to manufacture. It s entirely possible that its chipsets called Crush will be already announced in November. In the first version of Crush that will be made for both Intel Pentium III and AMD Athlon processors there will be used NV11 (GeForce2 MX) as an integrated graphics core. But later NVIDIA plans to improve the performance of this graphics core. Crush will support PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM.
The first to be launched in mass production is the version for Athlon as NVIDIA has presently no license from Intel.
Crush’s major advantage in comparison to classic chipsets will be its system memory bus with the width of 128 bits as opposed to the classic 64 bits. So DIMM modules in Crush-based mainboards should be installed in pairs, but that will lead to some increase in memory subsystem performance. As for the graphics core performance, it is expected to be two times greater than that of the present integrated chipsets.