MCPA7-S, the first alternative to Intel's G45 gaming horrible chipset, is about to hit the market. Several big manufacturers, including Asus, Gigabyte and MSI, have their designs and the boards should be in the sales by the middle of the month.

MCPA7-S is Nvidia's first integrated chipset for Intel socket 775, DMA chipsets and Nvidia finally got its act together and has finished the project. It is also the first chipset for Intel CPUs that really supports DirectX 10 as G45 gaming capabilities are laughable.

We've expected that chipset shortly after CeBIT, or in April time frame to be exact, but obviously the project was delayed massively, mostly due to the conflict with Intel. The reviews should be ready by the middle of the month, as well.