Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall

EconolineCrush writes "Tech Report has a review of NVIDIA's latest Athlon 64 chipset, the nForce3 250Gb. The 250Gb is especially interesting because it's the first core logic chipset to integrate a Gigabit Ethernet MAC, hardware-accelerated firewall, and RAID across four Serial ATA and four "parallel" ATA devices. NVIDIA is even working with third party developers to help their software take advantage of the chipset's hardware firewall components. Looks like we've reached a point where chipsets will differentiate on features more than performance."

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Re:Lotta features on one chip

[Gherald]

> The big question is, will all this stuff, half of which I will never use, slow down my computer?

No, if anything it will be arguably faster than traditional north/south-bridge pairs.