I am saddened by the nForce2 offerings to date

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
kt400a (kt533 maybe) will put Nforce2 to shame.

if someone gave me a few thousand dollars i wouldn't buy an nforce2 board just because of the fact that I have yet to see one do 200mhz fsb in a review.

ehhh I dunno, just like the KT400 boards were supposed to be a nice improvement over the Kt333 boards, most of em wound up performing worse at 400mhz.

 

[rbV5]

stevewm do you have a link to these adaptors?

LOL @ Soulkeeper, a few thousand dollars............

 

[Soulkeeper]

BigJ2078, yur right there was basically NO performance improvement between the kt333 and the kt400
instead things such as an improved V-link bandwidth, sata, usb 2.0, and agp 8x, as well as validation for higher speed memory (atleast by the motherboard makers) were the selling points

those may not be big issues for most of us but with the price of kt333 being not too much lower the added features not related to performance appeal to many

hopefully via will focus on performance with their next chipset

 

[MichaelMuck]

I beg to differ about performance between via and nf2. just installed a 8RDA+ after having a msi kt3 aru and my sissoft mem bchs went up 500+ marks and my 3dm went from 13800 to 15400 at stock settings


12x166
mem sync

 

[SpideyCU]

For those who say to get serial to parallel ATA adapters - I'm not too crazy about that, personally. Why? Well, let's see - either I pay $30 for a parallel IDE RAID card to use with my drives, or...

a) Spend more money on a motherboard with serial ATA in the first place
b) Spend $35/$40 on each adapter per drive
c) Be stuck with support for 2 devices instead of 4

Oooookay. That add-in PCI card is looking better and better. And with there being no advantage to serial ATA for quite a while, barring the cables (which alone aren't worth that hefty price for me), I can't justify such a setup.

 

[Parja]

According to this article, the HighPoint RocketRAID 133 hangs right with RAID controllers that cost hundreds of dollars more. Not a bad choice if you're willing to spend $75.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Parja
According to this article, the HighPoint RocketRAID 133 hangs right with RAID controllers that cost hundreds of dollars more. Not a bad choice if you're willing to spend $75.

I'd forego onboard parallel IDE RAID for one of those cards. $75 I can deal with and I might even be able to keep the RAID array I current have as it was built on a Highpoint HPT372 chip controller on my Epox 8K3A+.