[FreakyT]

Ah, that was the year that happened? I still remember the dark ages of having to pick between one of several chipset manufacturers, each with their own sets of strange problems.

Really, I think moving to chipsets made by the CPU manufacturer was an overall improvement.

[qb45]

A part of those chip's appeal was integrated GPUs. Not everyone wanted to buy discrete GPUs and Intel's own IGPs of early '00s were rather poor.