nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400Gb: Fast LAN, Firewall, SATA, RAID for Athlon XP
by Wesley Fink on May 13, 2004 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Workstation Performance
nForce2 Ultra 400Gb manages about the same performance as Athlon 64 3200+ in light, dx, and 3dsmax, while it trails in drv, proe, and ugs. Since the nForce2 Ultra 400 SPP is the same chip that we have seen in 400FSB nForce2 chipsets, performance should be about the same as we have previously seen on nForce2 Ultra 400. 400Gb is performing much better in some benches than we have seen with past 400 chips, and much poorer in others. This is likely the result of the updated nVidia Platform drivers.
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Myrandex - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
It woudl still be kinda disappointing to go out and purchase a brand new AthlonXP 3200+ system with this nvidia motherboard and later realize that there will be no further upgrades CPU wise. I have been pushing peopel to go to Athlon64 CPUs for that reason really, unless its an extreme budget situation.segagenesis - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
Extra features like SATA + Raid + Gigabit LAN on the chipset are a nice bonus. Kudos to nVidia for continuing to improve on features.psiu - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
Under final words it begins, "The Socket A Athlon 64 has not received the attention that the newer Athlon 64 chips have gotten in recent months, but the motherboards still sell in very large numbers for nVidia."That's supposed to be Socket A Athlon * XP *, right?
Anyway, neato! Happy to see that socket-A won't just up and disappear overnight, and features and performance are still being worked on for it.