Overclockers Club has completed preview on NVIDIA's latest offering, the nForce2 Ultra 400Gb chipset.
The nForce2 Ultra 400Gb incorporates many new features from NVIDIA's nForce3 250 chipset like GigE, native SATA, RAID features, and NVIDIA's new hardware based firewall solution. The RAID is capable of on-the-fly rebuilds of corrupted or missing data, while you're still running your operating system. Other RAID features include, spare disk allocation, bootable RAID's, and a cross-controller that allows you to mix and match IDE and SATA hard drives to create a RAID array. The hardware based firewall has dozens of options that can be modified to suite your needs and can be changed via a web browser. Unlike software firewalls like ZoneAlarm, Blackice, and Norton Security, the NVIDIA firewall is driver based. Meaning when you boot in to Windows, you're safe from attacks soon as your Ethernet connection is established. Software firewalls do not protect your system until Windows has loaded and the software firewall has started, leaving you open to attacks during that time.Read more
