[geeks] PC question

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:52:58AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
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> I'm considering one of them.  I hate having everything and the
> kitchen sink built onto the board, but these days most boards
> seem to come that way, good and bad.  Even the cut down MCP
> chip has an on board NIC.
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> I miss the days when we didn't have HD controllers on board.

I don't.  The only things I potentially prefer off board is video and
sound.  But, the nforce is pretty nifty for video.  Sure, it is a
somewhat of a UMA design, but then, it has a lot more memory bandwidth
than most PCs, and in fact, more memory bandwidth than the CPU can
saturate alone.   However, just like the O2, few people write software
to take advantage of this aspect of the Nforce boards.