Re: nVIDIA nForece2, again

2003-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:16:09PM -0700, Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: > It is a vague problem on term of best performance -- what. > NVidia has better memory bandwidth in AMD motherboards. s/better/best/ > In terms of IDE performance, the AMD 760MP has > the best performance in all chipsets in the wo

Re: nVIDIA nForece2, again

2003-08-16 Thread Jin Guojun [NCS]
It is a vague problem on term of best performance -- what. NVidia has better memory bandwidth in AMD motherboards. However, if SATA is involved, some motherboard either lowed the memory bandwidth, or had other I/O issues. In terms of IDE performance, the AMD 760MP has the best performance in all

nVIDIA nForece2, again

2003-08-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
My main machine has just fried a southbridge, and I'm looking for a replacement. From what I can see, in the AMD range, the current best performer is the nVIDIA nForece2. I've read Bill Paul's description of the problems with the onboard NIC, and if I buy one of these boards, I'll certainly swell