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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (52638)	8/27/2001 4:03:34 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> OTOH, most of us are waiting for the nForce board....which > is going to make any P4-SDRAM or even RDRAM offerings look > like a limp chicken neck. Especially on price performance. Link...?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (52638)	8/27/2001 4:15:21 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, Re: "most of us are waiting for the nForce board....which is going to make any P4-SDRAM or even RDRAM offerings look like a limp chicken neck. Especially on price performance." You're going way too overboard for what is probably going to be a 5-10% increase in performance due to a second DDR channel. If you buy one looking for the performance of a discrete system, you're going to pay the premium of the high cost chipset, and you'll still have to buy the GeForce 3 (or whatever else is out there at the time). If you are going after high performance integrated graphics, you can just as easily buy one of those cheap 735 chipsets, and put in a GeForce2 MX 400, and still be less than the price of the nVidia board. Neither of these situations is a huge improvement in price performance, and I don't think that you are going to see $120 nForce boards when the chipset costs manufacturers $90 to begin with. I think you're hoping for quite a lot if you expect top-notch performance, the lowest price points, and the best premium audio, all from a first-timer in the chipset business. It's just my observation, but I'll believe in the nForce when I can actually see a product and a price. wanna_bmw