Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> I normally wouldn't buy Nvidia, but the Nforce is surprisingly good value for
> money. It is a CPU chipset, not a graphics card. It includes GeForce 2 MX
> graphics, ethernet, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, HomePNA networking, a speculative
> prefetch cache and two RAM channels. It is far cheaper than buying all these
> components as separate cards, and according to the reviews I have read (quite a
> few) its integrated solutions offer better performance than standalone hardware.
> It's based on the same technology they used in the Xbox.

That's interesting, I'll have to look a little closer.  (I usually buy
motherboards with things like video, sound, and NIC onboard.)

> True. Nvidia claim to have "complete Linux drivers" but at present they only
> have drivers for the integrated graphics (the open source drivers work as well).
> The other components would, therefore, be useless to me until new drivers are
> released (which Nvidia have promised to do).

That's good to hear!

> Thanks for the input!

You're welcome, thanks for your response!

Randy Kramer

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