Fall Comdex '98 Coverage

The integrated 2D/3D graphics solution isn't your high end Riva TNT or Voodoo2 accelerator, rather a proprietary design produced by Trident specifically for the purpose of operating in such an environment.  While the MVP4 isn't intended to be a high end 2D/3D graphics solution, it doesn't give you the lackluster graphics performance you may be expecting.  VIA assured AnandTech that the performance would be "decent" and that it would be a higher end solution than the bare minimum requirements for a 2D/3D accelerator.  Whether that has any merit or not is up to you all to decide, however going on VIA's word, the MVP4 should provide most users with the ability to construct a nice $700 system with AC97 compliance among other things.

The hardware DVD decoding is another benefit the MVP4 offers in addition to its highly integrated nature and inherently low cost.   As if that weren't enough, it is possible for Fast Ethernet to be integrated into the chipset as well, sort of leaning towards the all-in-one PC design that the computer industry has been slowly but surely moving towards in the past few years.  Although hard core gamers won't drop their more expensive PC's in favor of a MVP4 based system, a second system built around a MVP4 motherboard wouldn't be too bad of an idea.