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Your criticism on SATA-150 and PCI-E x8 is unfair. No hard drive today or in the near future will push the rate of SATA-150. The fastest hard drive today is still the WD Raptor, and that is a SATA-150 hard drive. Your article makes it sound like SATA-150 is a serious draw-back even today, which is simply not true. While the lack of NCQ may be a drawback, it makes only a small percentage difference, and only when doing serious multi-tasking work, such as running multi-user database applications - and that is only a drawback on half of the 8 S-ATA ports (So the solution is to simply put your database on the 4 S-ATA ports on the nForce4 nvRaid controller.)
A similar issue with your comment on nForce4-SLI vs nForce4-SLI x16. No graphics card today comes even close to using a full 8 lanes of PCI-Express, or even for the next few years - this is all marketting hype and you are doing your readers a disfavour by making it sound like the dual X8 SLI setup is slower than dual X16 in some way. The nForce4 chipset should rather be criticesed for putting the second X16 controller on the southbridge! Considdering how long this motherboard has been available, the paddle setup for SLI mode selector is also not an engineering shortcut, but a relic from the time it was designed, and your wording makes it sound like the engineers were lazy or incompetent.
Otherwise, a fairly good article. Now if only someone would do a decent motherboard review, and test the southbridge and southbridge link under multi-workload type situations, eg Perform different workloads on different physical disks simultaneously, and access the network and play audio, etc. Lets see how well the Southbridge multi-tasks when comparing to other chipsets!
Cheers! Proud K8NXP-SLI owner and fan.
A similar issue with your comment on nForce4-SLI vs nForce4-SLI x16. No graphics card today comes even close to using a full 8 lanes of PCI-Express, or even for the next few years - this is all marketting hype and you are doing your readers a disfavour by making it sound like the dual X8 SLI setup is slower than dual X16 in some way. The nForce4 chipset should rather be criticesed for putting the second X16 controller on the southbridge! Considdering how long this motherboard has been available, the paddle setup for SLI mode selector is also not an engineering shortcut, but a relic from the time it was designed, and your wording makes it sound like the engineers were lazy or incompetent.
Otherwise, a fairly good article. Now if only someone would do a decent motherboard review, and test the southbridge and southbridge link under multi-workload type situations, eg Perform different workloads on different physical disks simultaneously, and access the network and play audio, etc. Lets see how well the Southbridge multi-tasks when comparing to other chipsets!
Cheers! Proud K8NXP-SLI owner and fan.
[Posted by: hartz 
| Date: 12/06/05 03:51:27 AM]
| Date: 12/06/05 03:51:27 AM]
