NVidia launched today the NForce 600 series and the GeForce 8 GPU family. NVidia has also announced that will manufact motherboards. Partners can now choose from building their own motherboards with the new chipsets, or use the NVidia mobos and put their logo on it. Now, NVidia uses letter 'i' for Intel chipsets and 'a' for AMD ones.

The nForce 680i SLI supports 3 PCI Express x16 slots, 2 Gigabit Ethernet connectors, 6 SATA-300, 10 USB 2.0 and TCP/IP. NForce 650i SLI supports 2 PCI Express x16 slots, 4 SATA-300 and 1 Gigabit Ethernet.

The GeForce 8 series has also been released and run games at 1600 x 1200 resolution. The new GPUs support DirectX 10, which brings an unified Shader Architecture. The Lumenex engine brings 16x full screen anti-aliasing and true 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR). Pure Video HD support increases the quality of 2D images.

GeForce 8800 GTX model runs at 575 MHz and brings 128 pixel shader processor at 1350 MHz, 768 MB GDDR3 at 900 MHz (1.8 GHz DDR) with a 384-bit interface. Suggested price: USD 599.

GeForce 8800 GTS model runs at 500 MHz features 96 pixel shader processor at 1200 MHz, 640 MB GDDR3 at 800 MHz (1.6 GHz DDR) with 320-bit interface. Suggested price: USD 499.