Why is everyone so excited of some Nforce mobos?

[eden]

Look I see they have awesome numbers in there, but damn why is everyone so excited if it comes with GF2 MX cards? I mean they relatively suck now! I thought they would like pump a GF3 in there, and really be a mobo of death! And I hope they release benchmarks soon...

 

[lhgpoobaa]

im not.

i believe the initial histeria came drom the days of the amd760, ali magik and via kt266 chipsets... ok, but not an amazing jump in performance from sdram to ddr.
so the idea of dual channel ddr sounded very good (at least to me)
now with the sis735, the much improved kt266a and ddr-333 based mobo's soon the nforce doesnt look that amazing anymore, and while onboard MX2 graphics is a quantum step up from previous integrated systems, it still kinda sucks compared to the 'average' geforce2gts or pro.
plus, nforce is kinda expensive.

what i really want to see is a DUAL cpu nforce... this way the memory bandwidth can be properly maxxed out with 2 cpus
as it stands the bandwidth is underutilised atm.

note: this is all "IMHO" stuff

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[Crashman]

You've mised the point complletely. Nobody in here (well, hardly anybody) cares about the onboard graphics, it's the high performance and killer sound they're after.

Back to you Tom...

 

[zengeos]

The next Crush chipset (nForce) due out h1/02 will incorporate a GeForce3 core into the Northbridge.

Meanwhile, nVidia is continuing to tweak performance of the current nForce. Initial performance with the first stable drivers was on par with kt266A. The version with the latest drivers benched in the last week seems to increase performance by 5-10%.

I wonder how much nVidia can tweak their drivers to further improve performance....1%? 5%? 10% more? In any case, some people will find the increased performance a compelling reason to purchase nForce. Even if they have to bypass the onboard video and add an external card.

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[somerandomguy]

It's a great chipset for me, since I'm in the "want the best, but can't afford it" category. NForce gives me a high performing motherboard, great sound, network card, and reasonable graphics all for the price of a high performing motherboard.
If you already have good sound and network cards, and a better graphics card, then I suppose the NForce isn't for you, but for me is upgrades half of my systems components in one hit.

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[somerandomguy]

The next Crush chipset (nForce) due out h1/02 will incorporate a GeForce3 core into the Northbridge.

Where did you get this information?
How do they intend to supply the GeForce 3 with the bandwidth that it requires?

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[lhgpoobaa]

i was just thinking... now that they have dual channel ram... how hard would it be to have triple channel or quad channel???

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[rcf84]

I dont know anymore about the Nforce but what really excites me is the SiS DDR400 p4 chipset in the making. Oh Nelly !!!

That means a SiS DDR400 AMD chipset would be on the way too.

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[somerandomguy]

Probably not too hard, except for the problems they have with putting 4 DDR RAM slots on a motherboard. It would be annoying if you have to have 3 or 4 sticks of RAM.
The GeForce 3 has 128 bit 460Mhz DDR RAM right? So you would need three channel 64 bit 400Mhz DDR RAM to provide enough bandwidth for a GeForce 3 and an Athlon CPU.

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[Guest]

Exactly
hForce like anyother integrated chipsent only for budget Pc's, so i you want a high buy a via and add optional componets.

 

[bront]

Good point. It would cease to be a budget MB if you need that much High Performance Ram anyway, and by the time it would, there would be better Vid cards.

Personaly, I hope the nForce board does well, because the dual memory architecture. It could be a significant advance in DDR SDRam. And with increasing mem speeds, in Rambus may have to watch out, or at least learn how to reduce the latency.

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[Negaverse23]

Don't forget that the nForce also has AGP expansion capability. It's more like a i815e rather than a i810.

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[juin]

I am also way more impresse by sis.Who is consider like very stable chipset.

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[peteb]

There's no point increasing memory bandwidth further unless the cpu is optimised to use it. The Athlon/XP isn't. Maybe thoroughbred will be (I doubt it - maybe 166/333DDR?) but until such time there is no point having higer memory bandwidth for AMD cpus - unless you are making a dualie board, and I doubt nVidia are going anywhere near that since they are doing the integrated thing...

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[lhgpoobaa]

well there are DDR-333 boards comming... and that just uses lower multipliers while boosting the fsb... which is good.
nforce however has the same 266 fsb. now it would be relly excellent if it had a 533fsb or something

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[zengeos]

I think AMD may actually be working on higher mem bandwidth for Thoroughbred. As you mentioned, Athlon is maxxed out with the PC2100 RAM for the most part. Nearly all the MB manufacturers, INCLUDING nVidia have much higher memory bandwidth capable boards on the roadmap for h1/02. Perhaps they know something we don't!

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[charliec2uk]

Errm, hard.

Dual channel Rambus requires 32 traces for the data bus, 'cos the current RDRAM is 16 bit. For Dual Channel DDR, I think there are 128 traces for the data bus (2x64). Now consider a 4 channel board. That requires 256 traces. Not least the capcitence problems you get and the difficulty of routing all those little wires.

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[lhgpoobaa]

right.

i still believe that nforce is a great platform for a dualie system.

oh, and there are no marsupials in borneo

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[Oni]

It seems the best graphics capabilities you could get out of nforce would be a geforce 2 pretty much. 266 MHz memory bandwidth would be pretty nice, they would just have to make sure it had 4 rendering pipelines instead of 2 like the MX.
Unless they made a special slot for high speed DDR video memory I don't think they could put a geforce 3 on board unless it was highly cripped by video memory bandwidth.
Oh yea and I do think that nForce would make for the perfect MP motherboard because of dual channel DDR memory. Somehow though I think it'll be awhile before anyone besides AMD releases an MP chipset. Look how long it took for the 762MP chipset, and now how long its taking for the second (supposedly better/cheaper) revision of that chipset.

 

[Negaverse23]

It would be more like a geforce 3 MX. It will most likely be slower compared to the current g3 lines but it will most likely have all of it's features.

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[charliec2uk]

I know, but its better than an exploding Guava fruit.

I wasn't saying the Nforce was a bad platfrom, mearly commenting on the difficulties of having multiple channels of memory.

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[lhgpoobaa]

also what would be nice is a nforce chipset for the pentium4.

beat rdram at its own game with 4.2mb/sec bandwidth.

OEMs selling "High End"PCs with integrated video will be forced into Q3tournaments using a TNT2M64!

 

[charliec2uk]

Would be nice, but Intel refuse to license the P4 bus to nVidia for reasons best known to themselves.

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[juin]

They dont want crappy produce in there way.

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[Kelledin]

That reminds me of a company I used to work for, where I built Dialogic-based systems. One of their customers is/was Call Time International; they have an Australian branch called Call Time Australia (how appropriate).

Well, one of the orders we shipped to them was a two-tier 7u rackmount system. For some reason, they ended up shipping it back for a warranty replacement, and instead of using the original properly-padded 7u shipping box, they stuck the system in a 5u box (<b>3.5" shorter</b> than the proper container) with <b>no padding at all.</b> This system was roughly the shape of a cube when new; it came back to us in the shape of a parallelogram.

We made all sorts of jokes about that system, mostly having to do with Steve Erwin taking the thing onto the set with him, a kangaroo doing unspeakable things to it, etc. etc. After the thing sat in our RMA area for a while, we put a large label on the top saying, "Australian for server."

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