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Heh, now it's my turn to gloat. I mean, REALLY gloat. You see, I received a lot of flack over 'tards telling me about all these great VIA chipset boards, when I told them they weren't worthy of being on an enthusiast level board.
Look at Anandtech. They still haven't released the performance figures, but in features the nForce3 250 cleans the floor with other chipsets. Hell, it could be 1% slower than the fastest current chipset and still be the better choice.
For those of you who bought early against my persistance, you got what you deserved: JUNK! I told you new boards being released in the near future would make everything previously released completely outdated. What will your so called "high end" board be worth a month from now? I wouldn't give you $20. Sure, there will be uninformed buyers you can con into taking it, but that's their problem.
Yes, we have a bunch of other stuff comming over the next few months, like PCI-Express. But that's a LONG wait...if you're waiting for it to overtake the market. This one was a SHORT wait. 2 months delay in a system build is a lot easier to live with than another 8 months.
About Intel: I never trusted the new socket. I might be paranoid, but spring loaded pins look like a terrible idea to me, both from the reliability and cost standpoint. What, Intel wants to save $3 on pins...by increasing board cost by $12? I'll have to "wait and see" a LONG time before I can consider that choice.
But I've been doing reviews lately. And if I need a platform in the near future, I think you know what I'll be getting.
Too bad none of these "good" board makers gave SiS a chance to get some market share before nVidia takes over.
I'd like to turn this post from gloating about yesterdays junk to features on the nForce3 250. I mean, 4 SATA drives in RAID, and 4 IDE drives in RAID, and combinations of those as well? What can we expect next from nVidia, RAID 5? How sweet would THAT be?
And the Gigabit LAN controller on-chip. SO much cheaper than Intel's solution, it also cuts board cost and design issues by eliminating the bus, as well as the external chip.
Too bad I'm not hearing "nForce APU", maybe next time. Then again, nVidia is looking at the soundcard market, so maybe not. But it would be great to have all these features on the chipset, it could ALMOST make Flex ATX viable for performance enthusiast.
Anyway, it's your call...no it's not. Too many of you have proven your hard headedness, it's my call. Wait for the performance figures and try to make me eat crow. And when you find out you're the ones eating "worse than crow", buy the technology I've deemed best, because you aren't capable of making that decision.
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Look at Anandtech. They still haven't released the performance figures, but in features the nForce3 250 cleans the floor with other chipsets. Hell, it could be 1% slower than the fastest current chipset and still be the better choice.
For those of you who bought early against my persistance, you got what you deserved: JUNK! I told you new boards being released in the near future would make everything previously released completely outdated. What will your so called "high end" board be worth a month from now? I wouldn't give you $20. Sure, there will be uninformed buyers you can con into taking it, but that's their problem.
Yes, we have a bunch of other stuff comming over the next few months, like PCI-Express. But that's a LONG wait...if you're waiting for it to overtake the market. This one was a SHORT wait. 2 months delay in a system build is a lot easier to live with than another 8 months.
About Intel: I never trusted the new socket. I might be paranoid, but spring loaded pins look like a terrible idea to me, both from the reliability and cost standpoint. What, Intel wants to save $3 on pins...by increasing board cost by $12? I'll have to "wait and see" a LONG time before I can consider that choice.
But I've been doing reviews lately. And if I need a platform in the near future, I think you know what I'll be getting.
Too bad none of these "good" board makers gave SiS a chance to get some market share before nVidia takes over.
I'd like to turn this post from gloating about yesterdays junk to features on the nForce3 250. I mean, 4 SATA drives in RAID, and 4 IDE drives in RAID, and combinations of those as well? What can we expect next from nVidia, RAID 5? How sweet would THAT be?
And the Gigabit LAN controller on-chip. SO much cheaper than Intel's solution, it also cuts board cost and design issues by eliminating the bus, as well as the external chip.
Too bad I'm not hearing "nForce APU", maybe next time. Then again, nVidia is looking at the soundcard market, so maybe not. But it would be great to have all these features on the chipset, it could ALMOST make Flex ATX viable for performance enthusiast.
Anyway, it's your call...no it's not. Too many of you have proven your hard headedness, it's my call. Wait for the performance figures and try to make me eat crow. And when you find out you're the ones eating "worse than crow", buy the technology I've deemed best, because you aren't capable of making that decision.
<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>
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