Already on the market in March to receive the motherboard with the new NVIDIA chipsets, including MCP78U with integrated graphics card. Up until now, NVIDIA GeForce identifies it as 9200 But now things have changed and almost at the last minute the group decided to change the name on the chipset GeForce 8300.

Changing the name does not involve in any way change the technical specifications. The new chipset will consist of one bone and capable AM2 and AM2 processors. Also offer full compatibility with DirectX 10 and PCI-Express 2.0, support for DVI and HDMI, and support for PureVideo HD hardware decoder which is assisting the playback of films in the formats H.264, VC1 and MPEG2

GeForce 8300 will also support Hybrid SLI technology, allowing for interaction with external graphics card in SLI mode, as well as the Hybrid Power – a system which, at a time when the system is heavily loaded, it will exclude external GPU and switch on the display IGP. Power consumption (TDP) for the GeForce 8300 has been set at 14W, about half of which is less expensive than the Intel G965, but then twice more from the AMD 690G.

I wonder what led NVIDIA to rename the last time. Could it be considered that the performance MCP78U is not high enough to be able to deserve membership of a series of 9000? Or maybe changed plans and decided to expedite the release of some other, faster chipset? Time will tell.