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To: fyodor_ who wrote (56199)	9/25/2001 1:08:40 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) of 275872

<font color=red> nForce ?'s answered by Anand Lal Shimpi The Boss Posts: 357 From: Raleigh Joined: Oct 1999 Monday, September 24, 2001 3:59 PM (NEW!) It was a late night but I think I'm ready to tackle some of these questions now. First of all I'd like to thank all of you for making it through the undoubtedly very long article; it took a lot of time to put together and I really appreciate all of the feedback. Now on to the questions: MicroEngineer The board this review was based on did not pose any stability issues for me. The same can't be said about previous revisions but during the testing the board was flawless. I'm going to reserve stability conclusions until I see final boards from manufacturers though. nortexoid One point I'd like to make is that we really don't want manufacturers to just drop the KT266A north bridge into their KT266 designs without any modifications. In order to gain the performance benefit the KT266A offers there are some specific settings that must be changed in the BIOS. Let's hope the first KT266A motherboards are more than just an old KT266 design with a new north bridge. Buggerlugs1 I only mention stability problems if they exist. It's pointless to call something "stable" based on any loops of benchmark runs. During my testing I didn't encounter a single crash or problem with the board. If I had encountered otherwise I would have mentioned it in the review. There was no reason to include GeForce2 Pro/Ultra numbers in the review; the only reason to throw in a GeForce3 is to show the best case performance of both of the chipsets, the KT266A and the nForce. As far as our Detonator 4/XP article goes, I haven't seen any users complaining about a lack of a performance increase caused by the new drivers. In lab we've been able to measure significant increases across the board. Killrose I really wanted to throw in more integrated chipsets to compare to but because of time constraints I was not able to. It'll be something to look at in the future. Vincelorto Yes. All nForce 420-D benchmarks were run with 1 x 128MB DDR266 DIMM in the first bank and 1 x 128MB DDR266 DIMM in the second bank. For the 220-D benchmarks I removed both modules and installed a single 256MB DDR266 DIMM in the first bank. Noriaki I'm going to see if I can play around with the nForce under linux to answer that very question. The video should already work fine, and I don't see a reason why the rest of the chipset wouldn't be fine under linux either. prisoner881 It'd be perfect as a MP solution but it's very difficult to design a MP chipset for the Athlon. I wouldn't expect NVIDIA to be able to devote the sort of time necessary to do such a thing. However they do have their eyes set on making a Pentium 4 chipset, whether or not that will surface is another question. SmArT1 I've addressed the stability of the board earlier on in this post so I'll focus on your second question. The point of the head-to-head performance tests between the nForce and the KT266 was to give you that GeForce3 vs GeForce3 on both platforms comparison. These benchmarks start here. Vincelorto I did test this in order to come to that conclusion. The first few memory bandwidth tests confirm it as well as the rest of the 420 vs 220 benchmarks throughout the article. sprockkets Hammer could be very impressive, but it's going to be a while before we see chips. Patiently waiting... Thanks again for the questions and keep the discussion flowing. Take care, Anand forums.anandtech.com fyo hopes that helps you out. M.

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