nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400Gb: Fast LAN, Firewall, SATA, RAID for Athlon XP
by Wesley Fink on May 13, 2004 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Performance
Gaming Performance repeats the performance patterns that we saw in General Performance benchmarks, with Athlon XP 3200+ at 80% to 90% of the performance of the Athlon 64 3200+. The Athlon XP is certainly not the top gaming performer, but it does provide an outstanding price/performance ratio.
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Myrandex - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
It woudl still be kinda disappointing to go out and purchase a brand new AthlonXP 3200+ system with this nvidia motherboard and later realize that there will be no further upgrades CPU wise. I have been pushing peopel to go to Athlon64 CPUs for that reason really, unless its an extreme budget situation.segagenesis - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
Extra features like SATA + Raid + Gigabit LAN on the chipset are a nice bonus. Kudos to nVidia for continuing to improve on features.psiu - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
Under final words it begins, "The Socket A Athlon 64 has not received the attention that the newer Athlon 64 chips have gotten in recent months, but the motherboards still sell in very large numbers for nVidia."That's supposed to be Socket A Athlon * XP *, right?
Anyway, neato! Happy to see that socket-A won't just up and disappear overnight, and features and performance are still being worked on for it.