Slashdot Mirror
NVIDIA's nForce Professional and Tyan's Words
CoffeeJunked writes "There's a lot of buzz about dual-core CPUs and with the release of the nForce Professional chipset from nVidia, there's a lot of buzz about the future of SMP machines as we know them. LinuxHardware.org has just published a couple of articles that get to the heart of the new chipset and what board manufacturers will be doing with them. The first article covers the chipsets and boards, while the second article is an interview with Tyan about what to expect from them this year. It's a good read all around."
I know all that. But you can't encode DTS-streams with such hardware, when you (for example) have multiple audio-streams and arranging them in a acoustical surround-environment. And who wants Dolby Digital?? and even this is not well supported. So, the only possibility is an analog 5.1 input on your soundsystem and an analog 5.1 output on your soundcard. And in that onboard-Sound sucks. And another factor: I bought a SATA Hardware-Raid from Adaptec new from my Dealer for just EUR 49. So what the hack bother with some crappy onboard adapters? My clients (and myself too) are working in a high-availability environment, so I can't just switch motherboards, because the RAID-Adapter is broken. (maybe there is no chance to get another motherboard, so all data is lost, and restoring costs time) And so I don't need motherboard crammed full with lots off stuff noone is ever going to use... I want light motherboards with better performance (and lesser features) for an acceptable price.
Your probably one of the idiots that modded me a Troll. But thats ok. I have too much Karma shit anyways.
xp can't do multiprocessing.