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Have you tried Z-tweaked, or maybe Guru3d? I have always had a better experience with their drivers than anything Nvidia puts out,and there drivers are hacked to let you run them on pretty much anything. And I know that one of them does put out mobile drivers because I accidently downloaded them once when I was in a hurry.

Am I missing something here? Z-tweaked hasn't released drivers since 10/2006 and Guru3d appears to be a review site...

Have you tried Z-tweaked, or maybe Guru3d? I have always had a better experience with their drivers than anything Nvidia puts out,and there drivers are hacked to let you run them on pretty much anything. And I know that one of them does put out mobile drivers because I accidently downloaded them once when I was in a hurry. Finally there is Driverpacks which will let you make a full WinXP DVD with every driver for both desktop and mobile preinstalled. I have an unattended version for repairs and it works beautifully. I hope this helps,and as a PC repairman I can sympathize. Trying to find that one missing driver can be a royal PITA.

That's all 25 claims dead right there.

Probably slightly after we have a PCIe sound card.

I've heard sound card companies bitch that PCIe sucks for sound cards (latency versus bandwidth or something like that), but I don't know and I really don't care.

Once PCIe cards can, in practice, do everything that PCI did, it'll be much easier to switch to PCIe.

http://www.nforcershq.com/article7213.html

Zonk's Microsoft masters are probably telling him not to post anything anti-XBox.

We think that an AMD-ATI fusion is a match made in enthusiast heaven
 
From another source ... could affect ATI's most direct competitor (nVidia) a lot - the merger would create a company who has the capacity to create good CPU's, good chipsets and good GPU's. By combining their resources, it opens things up for AMD and ATI to really take on Intel and nVidia in a big way and increase their market share in a range of different product segments.

 
It would be very interesting to see this merger go thru ... could mean good things for gamers :-)

Now I don't recall where I read it, but about an hour ago I read the breakdown on the 4 different chipsets in the NForce 500 series. Basically there is the uber-overclocker's SLI edition, the silent SLI edition, the baseline series, and the Crossfire series. Here you go. I think this was the article. http://www.nforcershq.com/article6287.html

Well, you seem to be forgetting something: crappy, sometimes BSOD-inducing NVIDIA chipset drivers. Look around the web, on http://www.nforcershq.com/forum and nvidia's own forums and you'll see the issues people are having. In contrast, I've heard that ATI's northbridge at least doesn't need many special drivers, though I have no personal experience.

"Customers can also visit Windows Live Safety Center and are encouraged to use the Complete Scan option to check for and remove malicious software that takes advantage of this vulnerability." Source.

How is your comment justified? I.e., how will Msft be able "to check for and remove" the exploiters of this code? They can't fix the Sony issue...

We need to place an RFID chip in everyones dominate hand. The mouse would communicate at low power with the RFID chip. This would communicate SSL over the internet to a database at the Department of Homeland Security. When I go to launch GTA3, Postal2, that Ghetto Boys CD, or even an X rated video the computer will reference my age and either allow or deny me access.

Granted, if there is a minor over my sholder then that is a problem. So maybe the mouse can read all chips in the room?

Then again, I am in "The Right." God gave us free will. He wants us to make the right decisions of our own free will, not by force. If parents buy GTA3 and give it to their 13 year old kid even though it says MATURE right on the packaging, then shouldn't complain when there is mature material in the game.

There is nothing wrong with the current system. The government can't take parenting out of parenting no matter how much they keep trying.

Besides, most gamers are now over 18.
http://www.games-advertising.com/demographics.html
http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/02. 11.06-gamerep.html
http://www.nforcershq.com/article2724.html
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20051205/BUSINESS01/512050302/1066/BUSINESS 01

The MCP-T chipset is real. It's the name of the NForce2 chipset.

Rare animal this one

That's not quite correct. The nForce4 chipset can support Dolby Digital *if* the source program supports it. So if you're playing a dolby digital DVD, you'll get dolby digital output. On the other hand, if you're playing Hunt The Whumpus (now with sound!) then it will likely fall back to stereo. (Of course, maybe the author encoded dolby digital sound for the Whumpus? That would be kind of cool.) ;-)

More Info

There have been a few sound musicians who have been looking at using GPU's for processing audio.

BionicFX Harnesses Power of Graphics Cards for Audio Processing
Programming uses GPU as Audio Effect Processor

BionicFX announced a technology for music production that turns NVIDIA video cards into audio effects processors. Audio Video Exchange (AVEX) converts digital audio into graphics data, and then performs effect calculations using the 3D architecture of the GPU. The latest video cards from NVIDIA are capable of more than 40 gigaflops of processing power compared to less than 6 gigaflops on Intel and AMD CPUs.

BionicReverb, the first effect to use AVEX, will debut at Winter NAMM Conference in January 2005. BionicReverb is an impulse response reverberation effect that runs as a plug-in inside VST compatible multi-track recording software. The audio effect is generated by combining an impulse response file with digital audio. Impulse response files are created by firing a starter pistol inside a location, such as Carnegie Hall, and recording the echoing sound waves. Combining the two files through mathematical convolution is a CPU intensive process that is reduced by moving expensive calculations onto the GPU.

AVEX works by transforming audio streams into the structure and colors of graphics data. The graphics data is processed on the video card by pixel or fragment shaders that run audio effect algorithms, which read and write to textures in video memory. The final calculations are retrieved from off-screen buffers and decoded into audio.


While Nvidia may be happy that these guys are using their hardware, they may be worried that these companies start mangling their own software in order for it to run on a GPU and end up doing things that will only break as graphics technology changes.

Therefore it is much safer for Nvidia to design hardware that processes audio directly.

And besides, why shouldn't audio be treated in the same way as textures? There would be many benefits if an API such as OpenAL could be implemented in hardware. All the sound files in a game could be preloaded into audio memory, along with repeat/random/play once flags, and have the programmer simply set the location of sound sources and of the listener. And this would fit neatly into a scene-graph representation.

LOL... I'm not sure what you mean by "walking all over them" unless you mean a currently decreasing, less than 20% market share in both laptops and desktops, whining about how Intel violated the "rules of dual-core" by sneaking 2 pieces of silicon into the same package, or as you mentioned, failing to penetrate the AMD and now Apple markets, or by failing to capitalize of the potential lead they had in 64-bit extensions, no-execute, or multi-core, or by failing to lower their costs or scale up volumes sufficiently to achieve design win, or maybe you mean that AMD has about 1/8 the revenue and has operated at a loss recently more often than not.

It's almost like they are *trying* to lose. Contrary to what you might think, the goal of a business is to deliver what people want and make money doing it. OTOH, I can see why you and the rest of AMD would want Intel to convert to another market. LOL.

As if sockets aren't enough, there's now two video card standards AGP and SLI (card: PCI-E) which caught me by surprise. I had to change my order before shipping as I didn't realise I could not use an AGP card with the new SLI/PCI-E configuration. Better? I don't need to spend $$$, my existing video card works fine, I just wanted to upgrade the mobo and CPU./p

As if sockets aren't enough, there's now two video card standards AGP and SLI (card: PCI-E) which caught me by surprise. I had to change my order before shipping as I didn't realise I could not use an AGP card with the new SLI/PCI-E configuration. Better? I don't need to spend $$$, my existing video card works fine, I just wanted to upgrade the mobo and CPU.

One of the uses for the GPU that looks promising is audio processing. There was an article about one company developing VSTs that use the GPU. It will be interesting to see how people will utilize their graphics cards in the future.

Yes I am! It's a Asus A7N8X.

I had a look at the link, and that guy had SP1 and the ports connected wrong. It can't be that in my case, it worked before SP2.

Mind you this sounds familiar
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52 009&highlight=sp2+firewire

I found an RME page that explains how to get the old SP1 drivers back.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2 .htm

After buying their HORRIBLE A7N8X board I don't plan on ever touching anything nVidia again. My board had just about every problem on this this list. The worst being it would destroy any data on my SATA drives after about a month. Just look at this 35 page post of people that have the same problem. The latest BIOS doesn't help either. The only reason I'm posting AC is because I know this going to get modded down by nVidia fanboys, but just look at these threads and decide for yourself.

After buying their HORRIBLE A7N8X board I don't plan on ever touching anything nVidia again. My board had just about every problem on this this list. The worst being it would destroy any data on my SATA drives after about a month. Just look at this 35 page post of people that have the same problem. The latest BIOS doesn't help either. The only reason I'm posting AC is because I know this going to get modded down by nVidia fanboys, but just look at these threads and decide for yourself.

This year still nvidia (obviously) will debut their nforce4 chipset which will have the capability for SLI. More info here

you can add those drivers to the installation CD yourself. i've written a guide for this process here

If you mean Soundstorm....they got rid of it for the Nforce3. They'll bring it back for the Nforce4.

Which (unfortunately) is still an uncorfirmed rumor.

There seem to be conflicting messages. The Inquirer has had two articles ([1], [2]) where they claim there will be a "SoundStorm 2" / SP-10 onboard.

However it has not been corfirmed by nVidia. In fact a "guy" from nVidia has said:"There may be some truth in there, but none of it has anything to do with audio. Makes me wonder how old this guy's data is.". [source].

80c seems rally hot to me. check out the forums at nforcers for your asus board if you want more info.

Tech-Report did a review of various RAID controllers last year.

In addition, VIA's KT600 provides Serial-ATA RAID 1 (mirroring) capability through the southbridge. There are also a large number of nforce2 boards that use Silicon Images Sil 3112A controller.

The A7N8X is a motherboard made by ASUS. You can find more help at nForceHQ

If you own Asus a7n8x (dx), all this skipping stuff is a known problem.

There seems to be a bug in hardware of MCP-T chipset (soundstorm part of it) and / or sound drivers. The temporary fix, and the one I use atm, is set your directsound hardware acceleration to "basic", for anything above causes things to be accelerated without speed checks or whatever. It is also precisely what causes bink movies to play ~3 fps.

More about the problem can be found here, here, and here's a FAQ should you have more problems (like slow bootups due to ~1 minute searches for nonexistant IEEE1394 devices)

Of course, above post is ripe with assumptions. Too much so, I'm afraid :)

If you own Asus a7n8x (dx), all this skipping stuff is a known problem.

There seems to be a bug in hardware of MCP-T chipset (soundstorm part of it) and / or sound drivers. The temporary fix, and the one I use atm, is set your directsound hardware acceleration to "basic", for anything above causes things to be accelerated without speed checks or whatever. It is also precisely what causes bink movies to play ~3 fps.

More about the problem can be found here, here, and here's a FAQ should you have more problems (like slow bootups due to ~1 minute searches for nonexistant IEEE1394 devices)

Of course, above post is ripe with assumptions. Too much so, I'm afraid :)

If you own Asus a7n8x (dx), all this skipping stuff is a known problem.

There seems to be a bug in hardware of MCP-T chipset (soundstorm part of it) and / or sound drivers. The temporary fix, and the one I use atm, is set your directsound hardware acceleration to "basic", for anything above causes things to be accelerated without speed checks or whatever. It is also precisely what causes bink movies to play ~3 fps.

More about the problem can be found here, here, and here's a FAQ should you have more problems (like slow bootups due to ~1 minute searches for nonexistant IEEE1394 devices)

Of course, above post is ripe with assumptions. Too much so, I'm afraid :)