nForce 500: nForce4 on Steroids?

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• Olaf van der Spek - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

  <quote>These devices can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 arrays. There is no support for RAID 10.</quote>
  
  That's probably because there's effectively no difference between 1+0 and 0+1 on a good controller.

• Olaf van der Spek - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

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  The FirstPacket technology is very useful for users who do a lot of uploading while playing on the Internet. The ability of the user to control the applications that receive packet-prioritization is a great benefit as the control panel is easy to use. We tested this feature thoroughly and it works exactly as advertised - IF the user has a need for that feature and uses it.

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  Doesn't this require support from the modem/router too?
  
  The delay (usually) happens in the modem and not in the network card.

• Zoomer - Saturday, May 27, 2006 - link

  No, because you make the bottleneck your network card, instead of the modem. :)
  
  There will be a slight loss of throughput. Read some QoS articles. lartc.org is also a good resource. I bet it's the same principle. ;)

• Trisped - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

  <quote>Multiple computers can to be connected simultaneously </quote>
  http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
  take out the "to"

• Gary Key - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

  Thanks, it is corrected.....

• Googer - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

  When benchmarking core logic it's should be a high priority to measure I/O performance, since that is the primary job of any AMD Chipset.
  
  Where are the HDD, Network, Audio, and R.A.I.D. benchmarks?

• Gary Key - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

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  Where are the HDD, Network, Audio, and R.A.I.D. benchmarks?

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  I answered above but we will have full benchmarks in the actual motherboard articles. Our efforts in the first three days was to prove out the platform and features that were added or changed (still doing it, feels weird to be up almost 72 hours). In answer to your question-
  Foxconn Board
  Network-
  Throughput - 942 Gb/s
  CPU utilization - 14.37% (with TCP/IP offload engine on), near 30% off.
  
  HDD/RAID
  No real difference compared to nF4 as we stated. The numbers are within 1% of each other. The interesting numbers will be in our ATI SB600 comparison.
  
  Audio-
  Dependent on the codec utilized in each motherboard, the RealTek ALC883 used in most of them have the same numbers as the nF4 boards. The only difference is the new 1.37 driver set we used. It will be interesting in the comparison as Asus went back to ADI for HDA.
  

• Pirks - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

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  feels weird to be up almost 72 hours

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  That's why AT is my favorite review site - 'cause you're really crazy bunch :-) Just don't ruin yourself completely, we need you!

• Gary Key - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

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  Dependent on the codec utilized in each motherboard, the RealTek ALC883 used in most of them have the same numbers as the nF4 boards.

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  The ending should read NF4 Intel or ATI/Uli AMD boards. Where is that edit function? Hit enter too soon. :)

• Gary Key - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - link

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  When benchmarking core logic it's should be a high priority to measure I/O performance, since that is the primary job of any AMD Chipset.

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  They will be in our roundup comparison and ATI AM2 articles.