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Chipset Duel - VIA vs. Nvidia nForce
msolnik writes: "Tom's Hardware has put 13 motherboards to the ultimate test in their lab. The outcome? By and large, the VIA KT266A chipset knocks the stuffing out of the Nvidia nForce 420D. True bright spots were the candidates sent in by Soltek and Soyo."
EH, It's Linux 7.3.
I suppose all 2.4.15 bugs have been ironed out.
NForce = NuisanceForce
You've probably seen some hardware reviews like this that describe some of the lateral front-side improvements that some of the ASIC frontiersmen have been embarking on, but the reality of it all doesn't always sink in during the course of creating a chipset duel like this. You can't ignore the inability to do PCI syncs on most of the higher-end pipelined components like the Creative Audigy and GeForce 3 Ti500.
If you dig a little, you'll see that those folks also have long history of solving problems like those described in your post. In fact, one of the market segments they've been targetting for the last few months involves sub-AGP register performance enhancement tailoring. So, while you end up with some benchmarks resembling AGP 8x, you find yourself wallowing in a sea of self-pity as your multimedia performace drops off the charts.
The practical implications of this are worse than vaporware. With all of this attention flowing in the direction of negative progress, we're likely to be more inhibited than we helped by this uncommitted branching of GDI code.
These bastards can take their front side resonating bleed factor, cover it in bubble wrap, and mail it to their mothers.