nForce2 IDE driver question

[drewski]

posted this on the motherboards forum, but it doesn't get as much traffic as here . . .

In Anand's preview/review of the KT400a he states:
The biggest performance advantage the nForce2 will have over the KT400A exists in business/general usage environments, where NVIDIA's excellent IDE drivers improve performance tremendously.

The Win2k nForce drivers do not include an IDE driver, it just uses the M$oft drivers. The XP nForce drivers include an IDE driver.

Sooo . . . is it possible to install the XP IDE driver, if I'm using Win2k to get the tremendous performance iimprovement?!?

 

[Lord Evermore]

I didn't even think people got tremendous IDE performance with nvidia's drivers. I thought people had issues like with getting CDRW drives to work and stuff. And terribly high CPU usage.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
I didn't even think people got tremendous IDE performance with nvidia's drivers. I thought people had issues like with getting CDRW drives to work and stuff. And terribly high CPU usage.

From the feedback I have read here on the forums, the census is to NOT install the nVidia IDE drivers during the nForce installation. I just got my new NF7-s v1.2 installed last night and I chose not to install them.

 

[drewski]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
I didn't even think people got tremendous IDE performance with nvidia's drivers. I thought people had issues like with getting CDRW drives to work and stuff. And terribly high CPU usage.

From the feedback I have read here on the forums, the census is to NOT install the nVidia IDE drivers during the nForce installation. I just got my new NF7-s v1.2 installed last night and I chose not to install them.

thanks for the info! i guess i'm lucky to have W2K and not have worry about choosing!! LOL!!

someone needs to tell Anand . . . :Q

 

[mechBgon]

To be specific, one should not install the SW IDE drivers (don't ask me what the "SW" stands for). This causes the driver installer to use its other IDE driver, which is WHQL-certified and which avoids the aforementioned burner problems. With Win2000 installs, there is no SW driver offered, so you don't have to worry.

BTW, I did ask for clarification in this as to which IDE driver was used in AnandTech's KT400A-versus-nForce2 review, but the question hasn't been answered.