Nforce 3 not in mass production yet??
Omega65
Philadelphia, Pa
<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11293" target=_blank>The Inq: Nforce 3 not in mass production yet</a>
<i>EVEN THOUGH Asus has already announced Nforce 3 motherboards that you can buy in many parts of the world, there's evidence suggesting the chipsets not so ready as Nvidia would like, at least not for mass production.
All you can appear to get so far are limited quantities of the chipset, that is to say sample, rather than mountains.
We are told that the chipset – as is often the case with any chipset – has a few glitches to be resolved, but they'll be fixed soon.
At few board manufacturers will hold their breath for a few more weeks until this chipset is ready to do justice to the eagerly anticipated AMD Athlon 64 and FX launch. </i>
<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11293" target=_blank>more here</a>
<i>EVEN THOUGH Asus has already announced Nforce 3 motherboards that you can buy in many parts of the world, there's evidence suggesting the chipsets not so ready as Nvidia would like, at least not for mass production.
All you can appear to get so far are limited quantities of the chipset, that is to say sample, rather than mountains.
We are told that the chipset – as is often the case with any chipset – has a few glitches to be resolved, but they'll be fixed soon.
At few board manufacturers will hold their breath for a few more weeks until this chipset is ready to do justice to the eagerly anticipated AMD Athlon 64 and FX launch. </i>
<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11293" target=_blank>more here</a>
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Like I said in the "My First Opteron" thread, this chipset simply lacks polish. It seems rushed.
Whereas the AMD boards with 2xx, 4xx, and 8xx support are blazing fast, with performance that far outdoes existing competition, the SK8N and the crush k8 chipset shows no such performance leads. Those chipsets HAD to be optimized, ready to go, and rip snortin' fast for it to be a hit with the enterprise community.
The Crush K8 exhibits lackluster and unexemplary performance, very much unlike its AMD chipset-powered brothers.
This confirms my theory of the chipset needing another revision (C1 instead of the current C0).
Everything on the 2xx boards is 30%+ faster than what we're seeing here on the only 1xx board.
Perhaps the other K8 chipsets will perform better. OCWorkbench is promising a Athlon64 motherboard review later today
A2 revision is bad, ok, let's make an A3! Ok, that's not much good either, ... Alright, here's our Ultra 400 part, this works like it was designed to in the first place!
Our Sk8n was a C0 part. I'm thinking that C2 or C3 will be where the action is at. I'm interested in seeing what VIA produces (As you said Omega) with their K8T chips.
INQwell's statements in this article (Which I read a few minutes before posted here) stated that the A64 is showing them to give the P4 one hell of a hard time. Additionally, it seems the A64 scales better than AMD is willing to let on.
The only question remains:
"What chipset is INQwell using to see this performance?"
I just want to see how it all pans out:
Socket 754?
Socket 940 Opteron?
Socket 940 FX-51?
Dual channel on the 754?
Dual channel on the FX51?
Registered on?
Registered off?
DDR400 support?
My prediction is: AMD-powered chipsets using the Athlon FX-xx chips with DCDDR is what's going to win. Then nVidia will finally breathe the right amount of life into their crush chips and overtake AMD in performance, and VIA's going to fall a distant third.
I personally think that:
Athlon FX is going to be the chip to buy.
It'll use the Opteron architecture.
It'll have 1MB of l2 cache.
It'll have dual channel.
Registered/ECC won't be necessary.
That's what I think.
But god, I want to see how it all stacks up.
I want the FX A64, Opteron, and s754 A64 to be pitted head to head. I want to see nVidia's crush, VIA's k8, and AMD's 8000-series chipsets head to head.
Will any of these platforms support DDR400? Will any of them see the use of regular memory? When is DDR2 coming officially for these platforms?
The biggest question <i>I</i> have is: "What am I buying?"
I want the best, and there seem to be so many options this time around. AMD really diversified their product line (Made it confusing?). It could be both good and bad.
God. Exciting times.