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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