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It has been a while since we have seen any new Intel chipsets from Nvidia - and after the GeForce 9300/9400 it may be a long time before we see any more, as rumours suggest that Nvidia has not gotten a QPI license and will not be making chipsets for Nehalem.

Today we are looking at MSI's P7NGM Digital, a nice looking micro-ATX board based on the GeForce 9300.

This is a very new board - we got our engineering sample only a short time ago, and it was just a bare board - no manual, no drivers, nothing. Fortunately we were emailed instructions for retrieving drivers and literature from Nvidia, so we were able to go ahead and test the board.

Here are some of the slides MSI sent me with the board:

Ok, I see a couple of things already that I like - supposedly acceptable IGP gaming performance, "GeForce Boost" support, and PureVideo support for up to 1080P output, and it has HDCP on-board.

The next two slides introduce the MSI P7NGM Series, and show the differences between the current two models - basically the "Digital" model has an HDMI output and all solid state caps, whereas the lower end model does not have an HDMI output and only has solid state caps for the Northbridge.

Here are the spec sheets for each board, individually.