Mobo with the fastest IDE HD performance??

[Ghamu]

Just wondering with the newer mobo's out now, Will they give me a boost in HD transfer speed? I do a lot of video editing of mpeg-2 files for dvd's (not re-encoding, but I end up transfering many many gigs at a time). I was just wondering what would give me the best preformance. Right now I have FIC an11, a via kt266a raid board at 145 fsb. I use raid 0 on my two fastest Hd's. Will intel's latest give me noticable increase in speed? Or the newest Via 400 boards?

 

[senior guy]

Regarding HDD data transfers, current SiS chipsets are definitely faster than their Intel/VIA counterparts. However, with both of the latter types I've realized substantially faster IDE performance by connecting my HDDs to a Promise IDE/RAID controller (using the onboard IDE controller for CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and the like).

 

[oldfart]

Regarding HDD data transfers, current SiS chipsets are definitely faster than their Intel/VIA counterparts

SiS faster IDE than Intel??? Since when?

 

[senior guy]

OF~ These findings have been reported in a few recent reviews/shootouts... For example, ocworkbench says so, stating therein:
"Disk performance has improved drastically after the new south bridge SiS 963 is used on the SiS boards that supports the newer ATA-133 interface. Together with the IDE busmastering drivers, the disk performance has almost doubled from the SiS645DX and a 45% increase over the Intel boards."

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The nForce has impressive IDE HDD performance.

 

[Peter]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
The nForce has impressive IDE HDD performance.

... as long as you don't measure burst write throughput.

 

[Ghamu]

Originally posted by: Peter

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
The nForce has impressive IDE HDD performance.

... as long as you don't measure burst write throughput.

So which would have faster sustained throughput? I care most about large file transfer performance. Does the original nForce still hold well in light of the newer boards? The real-time dobly digital encoding sounds really cool to me (output computer games to my dobly digital reciever)

 

[RanDum72]

The nforce boards do have very good IDE performance. I just finished a new machine with a P4 2.4ghz, Intel mobo using the same Highpoint 372 RAID controller and harddrives (two Maxtor 7200rpm drives) from my older nforce setup (XP 2100+, Asus A7n266-C). Running Sisoft sandra usig the new set-up, I get roughly 36000+ consistently across several runs. But the nforce setup was always getting 42000+.