harryinny3
02-19-04, 02:34 PM
part of email i got,
I just got off the phone with a videocard and motherboard manufacturer you all know very well. It seems that we can start looking forward to nVidia nForce3-250 based Athlon64 motherboards towards the end of this month. The preliminary impression is that you can expect the nF3-250 to match performance levels of VIA's K8T800 Athlon64 chipset, but not necessarily outperform it. According to our past reviews, the nF3-150 chipset had a hard time performing at the full Hypertransport speeds of 800MHz 16-bits wide (upstream/downstream). Looking further along the horizon, socket 939 solutions will begin appearing in March, and in April we are anticipating Intel to release the i925x and i915 chipsets (previously known as Grantsdale and Alderwood) which will bring the long awaited PCI express and Intel socket LGA775 to the table.
This could be an interesting Board.
Harry
I just got off the phone with a videocard and motherboard manufacturer you all know very well. It seems that we can start looking forward to nVidia nForce3-250 based Athlon64 motherboards towards the end of this month. The preliminary impression is that you can expect the nF3-250 to match performance levels of VIA's K8T800 Athlon64 chipset, but not necessarily outperform it. According to our past reviews, the nF3-150 chipset had a hard time performing at the full Hypertransport speeds of 800MHz 16-bits wide (upstream/downstream). Looking further along the horizon, socket 939 solutions will begin appearing in March, and in April we are anticipating Intel to release the i925x and i915 chipsets (previously known as Grantsdale and Alderwood) which will bring the long awaited PCI express and Intel socket LGA775 to the table.
This could be an interesting Board.
Harry