Oh my! Nvidia may have done it!

[Guest]

You forget that, unlike other consumer chipsets, the nForce architecture does much of its processing locally with specialized DSPs (the audio processor, the networking and io processor) that are more powerful than current top end add-in cards (3 com 100 base T, virtually ALL consumer sound cards including the SoundBlaster series). Further, these components, along with the CPU, each, individually, hanve optimized channels to the system memory through HyperTransport, dual channel crossbar memory controllers, and the DASP (= L3 Cache?).

All this optimization means that, once you replace the GeForce Mx with a Geforce 3, a system built around an nForce motherboards using <font color=blue> integrated components </font color=blue> will be faster than anything you can build with high end <font color=blue>consumer level</font color=blue> add-in cards.

In other words, the nForce using integrated components and an add-in video card will be <font color=blue> the </font color=blue> high performance machine.

Further, you're almost <font color=blue> guaranteed stability </font color=blue> under the windows 2000 kernel (Win2K, Win XP) since the hardware that nVidia is using was designed for the <font color=blue> xBox</font color=blue>, a platform based on the Win2K kernel.

That's what makes this news so exciting. Here's to hoping they can deliver on the <font color=blue> hype! </font color=blue>

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by bobsomebody on 06/06/01 01:27 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[somerandomguy]

Well, NVidia did say they would be releasing both higher and lower performance versions of this chipset.

"Ignorance is bliss, but I tend to get screwed over."