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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (56194)	9/24/2001 12:13:24 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Perhaps some people were expecting too much from nVidia and too few from VIA " Given VIA's track record, it was a reasonable expectation.

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (56194)	9/24/2001 12:38:47 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> The main problem for nVidia is IMO not the nForce > performance levels but that they gave VIA enough time to > redesign their KT266 to make it much more attractive We would have been happier, I agree. But the nForce still isn't gangbusters over, say, the SiS735. > But I wouldn't call that a "failure". The reason why I put the word in quotes is because it was not really a failure. I meant that it was only so from a limited perspective. This is ... one of the more exotic characteristics of the English language. Of course, this particular language characteristic is why I always get annoyed by people who constantly put their words in quotes for absolutely no reason, such as a person who would state something like >>This stock "will" go "down" in the "future"<<. By all respects, that statement should read as "This stock won't go up in the present or past", which is nonsensical!

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (56194)	9/24/2001 12:54:13 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Andreas: The main problem for nVidia is IMO not the nForce performance levels but that they gave VIA enough time to redesign their KT266 to make it much more attractive. Personally, I'm completely flabbergasted that Anand did not report any stability or compatibility issues. I still think we'll see a few issues crop up as hundreds of thousands of users start abusing it with all sorts of hardware combinations ;-). [In this sense, it's much, much easier to make a chipset for a console, since it only has to work with one particular set of hardware] -fyo