Nvidia intros nForce2
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26216.html"; target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26216.html</a>;
<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/</a>;
from the product page:
It is clear that PCs have entered the connected, digital dimension. From intensive 3D games to video editing to CD burning to the networked environments, today's PCs are faced with the challenge of keeping up with life's digital demands. The NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors bring a new level of performance, value and functionality to home and office desktop PCs and serve as the foundation for exciting new digital media platforms.
yeah, yeah...
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<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/</a>;
from the product page:
It is clear that PCs have entered the connected, digital dimension. From intensive 3D games to video editing to CD burning to the networked environments, today's PCs are faced with the challenge of keeping up with life's digital demands. The NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors bring a new level of performance, value and functionality to home and office desktop PCs and serve as the foundation for exciting new digital media platforms.
yeah, yeah...
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"3D games to video editing to CD burning", which any budget system from a year ago could handle. It doesn't even have onboard serial ata, 802.11 or bluetooth.
The only features of note were also on the original except for dual ethernet+router logic.
<strong>Unfortunately this announcement sounds like a bunch of others with little to back it up.
"3D games to video editing to CD burning", which any budget system from a year ago could handle. It doesn't even have onboard serial ata, 802.11 or bluetooth.
The only features of note were also on the original except for dual ethernet+router logic.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I still want one. I believe the future in computing is integration. Transistors will become smaller and eventually it'll make the most sense to have a SOC System On a Chip
[quote] Steve Mason noted this interesting blurb on NVidia's nForce 2 Features page:
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions.
Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.
Not currently available? Implying it may be coming... soon? <hr></blockquote>
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I guess the software correction of ColorSynch muct be chopped liver. Gee, an expensive hardware solution in search of an already solved problem.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You don't get it...
nForce2 is a MOTHERBOARD CHIP SET (same as the first nForce)! It provides a bunch of 'stuff' (see link below) to the system. Ethernet, USB2, DDR400, AGP8X, Audio+DD5.1, MPEG2 Hardware decode, etc etc etc.
Apple doesn't USE the nForce1 chipset and seeing how the nForce2 chipset states that JUST ONE of the features isn't available on yet on the Mac it would seem to indicate that THE REST OF THE FEATURES ARE AVAILABLE AND WORKING ON THE MAC!!!
Hmm how can that be since the computers Apple ships today don't have nForce chipsets on the MOBO...
:eek:
Sinking in yet?!?!
Read and lust: <a href="http://nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=nf2_features"; target="_blank">http://nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=nf2_features</a>;
Dave
<strong> I believe this feature is available on gf3 cards and up, possibly gf2. However I don't have a mac with an nvidia card around here so I don't know if it's not available. It's nice, but not a big deal. It sort of looks like gamma color adjustment except the brightness level stays the same.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you read DaveGee's post ?
You completely missed the point.
This could be huge!!!! The G4 would no longer be starved...
Nine more hours
Now, this probably just means Macs with the GeForce 4 don't support this feature, but we can still hope!!!
TwinBank memory is the same as LightSpeed memory featured in ALL CURRENT graphics chips from nvidia, also ATi has a 128-bit memory controller in the radeon cards.
TwinBank never made any sense for chipsets, since the AMD XP processor is bottelnecked by its 133mhz bus, so bandwidth higher than 133/266DDR/2,1GB/Sec is wasted.
Also, nforce is less stable and preforms worse than almost any other AMD chipset. The only issue with nforce2 is wether or not this is going to be fixed.
Most builders buy their own graphics cards, so the integrated stuff is a moot point. Besides, the integrated chip uses shared memory and underperforms when compared to real-world chips of the same stable.
nForce has only been interesting to system integrators and white box builders who are looking for cheap integrated solutions. The hard-core preformance guys look elsewhere ..
To finish off undermining my own points and credibility, my MWNY warm-up exercise has included ordering an nforce1 board to build a system on, just in case, and just to be cheap