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NVidia nForce Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dolby-is-oh-so-yum dept.

CtrlPhreak writes: "The highly awaited NVidia nForce is finally here. Anandtech has a review of an nForce 420 reference board. This is the one with integrated dolby 5.1 sound, a GF2 MX core at 6x agp, and dual-channel DDR RAM! Go check it out."

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  1. Re:Too much bandwidth? by cmowire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not sure. ServerWorks might be avoiding an AMD motherboard for the simple fact that Intel has been making motions of ceeding the high-end Intel chipset market to them.

    i.e. ServerWorks doesn't want to loose a license to the Pentium 4 and Itanium busses. ;)

    Regarding the 420 series and a built-in AGP card. It's likely that the cost difference between the two versions will be lower than the cost of a clearly better AGP card. This chipset is designed for a lower-end user. One who wouldn't be able to afford a GeForce 3 or a Radeon 7500, or at least doesn't want to spend the money on it.

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    Gentoo Sucks
  2. Re:Isn't it ever too much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    130fps in Quake 3 = 30 fps in Quake 4.

    If you don't want to upgrade hardware every time new software is release then, when you do upgrade, it is best to do so to something more powerful than the current software

  3. Linux support query? by wct · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I really don't want to sound like a zealot or anything like that, but I would like to know if the integrated peripherals (sound, video, NIC) will be supported under Linux. It seems like a no-brainer for the video, given NVIDIA's commendable (though closed) Linux drivers. I remember jumping out and buying a TNT2 when they announced Linux support for the card, then waiting a year for the 4.X drivers to finally arrive. Now that I'm finally going to upgrade my computer, the nForce features are attractive, but I would like to know they are supported at the time of purchase instead of having to while away months wishing I'd bought products with existing support.

    Really, this isn't a whinge about NVIDIA. Any company that supports Linux to the parity of their Windows releases deserves respect (are you listening ATI? Cirrus Logic? Guillemot? Creative?) After a few initially iffy driver releases, the very latest versions have been pretty much perfect for me. I just want to know if the features of this chipset will be supported off the bat this time. A kernel module for the NIC is probably not a major issue, but a closed sound-card driver will be hard to reconcile with the ALSA project, set to be the new Linux sound standard in 2.5.x. But any support is better than none, as they have proven in the past.

    Flame away zealots :)

  4. Heat problem by beanball75 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Unless they work out heat problems:

    http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index .html

    I can't think of a circumstance where I would want to trust a 4-way server to an AMD chip. Love it for my desktop though.

  5. Does this spell the end of the DIY system.. by levinas · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It the past there was a strong hot rod culture, where people would activily take apart there engines etc etc. However with modern cars, due to the invention of things like overhead cams, this has all but died. The reasion for this is the almost total intergration of part's into cars nowadays. Now couldn't the same thing be said to be happening with computers.

    With almost all the components you need and no doubt in a better box why would anyone assemble a computer today is beyound me. Now with it all one the main board it is starting to seem more and more "hardcore".

    It seem's to me that we are witnessing the end of a era, wheather this is good or bad I leave up to you guy's.