Sudhian Media has posted a review on NVIDIA’s nForce3 250GB chipset

Last week we discussed the new features and value-added additions to NVIDIA’s nForce3 250GB chipset, including its hardware firewall, but we didn’t actually demonstrate any performance testing. We’re going to remedy that today, but instead of using a typical generic set of benchmarks, most of which stress CPU and AGP, we’re going to focus specifically on two areas: Gigabit Ethernet, and RAID. Both are major new features of the NF3 250GB, but NVIDIA’s new Ethernet controller (and how it interfaces with the hardware firewall) is of particular interest. Since the Athlon 64 uses an on-die memory controller, chipset evaluations and improvements are going to be more and more southbridge-focused in the future—does NV250GB have what it takes to rule the pack? Lets have a look.

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