the futute of chipsets ?

[sibanac]

http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/nforce3-250gb/index.x?pg=1


NVIDIA's nForce3 250Gb chipset :

The 250Gb beefs up the nForce3's HyperTransport link and adds Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA and IDE RAID, a working AGP/PCI lock, and a hardware-accelerated firewall to the chipset's arsenal of integrated features.

and much more goodies

 

[wyrd_fish]

isn't te nForce 3 a single chip jobby?
and only for the 64bit CPUs?

 

[sibanac]

aye, but pretty spiffy tho, I like the HW-acel FW, seems nvidia lets 3rd partys write their firewalls to make use of it, wish more nics would have that, and support linux ofc

 

[MrBlack]

Got any links to the tech behind "hardware accellerated firewall"?

It's not like packet filtering is particularly cpu intensive anyway, but it does sound interesting. Plus I have an nforce3 board for my A64 3400. I've only enabled the Gbit realtek on board NIC, though, not the nforce MCP jobby.

 

[SawTooTH]

Ive just topped out on my nforce2..nowhere to go except rip everything out and start again. Im holding back now until this whole nforce3 and pci express/ sata support issues are sorted, never mind the new Athlon 64 sockets.

I hate these transition periods. I would have thought I would be used to it by now.

 

[Xavier]

Actually, there are implementations of nForce3 250 which support dual 939pin cpus