Nvidia claims it will trounce Intel with Nforce options

Dom · Jul 14, 2003, 11:29 AM

CHIP FIRM Nvidia is launching a five pronged attack in a bid to sell more of its Nforce chipsets, it has emerged.
The first prong is its loyal enthusiasts user base, but is also targeting the corporate market, making a bid to grab more share for workstations, promote its Nforce as a basis for the "Media Center" PCs that are out and about, and listly, but not leastly, the consumer market.

Nvidia is claiming that its Nforce 2 Ultra 400 and its Nforce 2 MCP-S1000 offer "ultimate" performance and the "best in the known universe" for Gigabit Ethernet and RAID.

Its MCP S100 supports two serial ATA ports and eight USB 2 ports, but also "NV RAID" and and Nvidia GiE. NVRAID, it claims, will offer spare disk allocation, a user interface that's easy to use, and single RAID functions across both Serial ATA and ATA controllers.

It reckons that as far as tick boxes go, it trounces its competition including Intel, Silicon Image, Via and Promise because of these features, which also include RAID morphing and transforming.

The MCP-S1000, it claims, includes features for the corporate market including TCP segmentation and checksum offload, support for IP version 6, 802.1P and 802.1Q support, a personal firewall and network management.

It reckons stepping A02 will be out in volume in September, in time for the Computex show, while its third stepping will hit the streets before Santa starts ringing his famous bell.

A reference board it's making, according to our sources, will be tuned for as much as 500MHz, while NVRAID needs a 4MB ROM (read only memory).

Software it's working on will include monitoring features and allow users to change fan speeds, BIOS settings, bus speeds, memory times and even voltages.

Nvidia is getting real aggressive, real soon. Bearding Intel in its lion's den means Chipzilla and Graphzilla are heading for a real fight in the next few months.

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Source: TheInquirer

WaltC · Jul 14, 2003, 12:06 PM

Not sure I understand the Inquirer's point...where's the nVidia P4 chipset that'll be doing the competing? What nVidia is doing as far as I can see is competing successfully with VIA's Athlon-chipset products.

digitalwanderer · Jul 14, 2003, 12:57 PM

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Originally posted by Dom
The first prong is its loyal enthusiasts user base

What "loyal enthusiasts user base" are they talking about?!? Most of the faithful nVidia users I know are pretty bloody pissed at nVidia right now.

They must be talking about gstanford, nV40, and Peter Glaskowhathisface....but I don't see how targetting three users is gonna help 'em much.

AlternateVirus · Jul 14, 2003, 01:59 PM

^ yep im one of them pissed off nf2 users.

Jul 14, 2003, 11:29 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,942 Rep Power: 0	Nvidia claims it will trounce Intel with Nforce options CHIP FIRM Nvidia is launching a five pronged attack in a bid to sell more of its Nforce chipsets, it has emerged. The first prong is its loyal enthusiasts user base, but is also targeting the corporate market, making a bid to grab more share for workstations, promote its Nforce as a basis for the "Media Center" PCs that are out and about, and listly, but not leastly, the consumer market. Nvidia is claiming that its Nforce 2 Ultra 400 and its Nforce 2 MCP-S1000 offer "ultimate" performance and the "best in the known universe" for Gigabit Ethernet and RAID. Its MCP S100 supports two serial ATA ports and eight USB 2 ports, but also "NV RAID" and and Nvidia GiE. NVRAID, it claims, will offer spare disk allocation, a user interface that's easy to use, and single RAID functions across both Serial ATA and ATA controllers. It reckons that as far as tick boxes go, it trounces its competition including Intel, Silicon Image, Via and Promise because of these features, which also include RAID morphing and transforming. The MCP-S1000, it claims, includes features for the corporate market including TCP segmentation and checksum offload, support for IP version 6, 802.1P and 802.1Q support, a personal firewall and network management. It reckons stepping A02 will be out in volume in September, in time for the Computex show, while its third stepping will hit the streets before Santa starts ringing his famous bell. A reference board it's making, according to our sources, will be tuned for as much as 500MHz, while NVRAID needs a 4MB ROM (read only memory). Software it's working on will include monitoring features and allow users to change fan speeds, BIOS settings, bus speeds, memory times and even voltages. Nvidia is getting real aggressive, real soon. Bearding Intel in its lion's den means Chipzilla and Graphzilla are heading for a real fight in the next few months. _______________________ Source: TheInquirer

Jul 14, 2003, 12:06 PM	#2
WaltC DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2003 Location: Deep in Martian soil where it's warm and the air is good Posts: 250 Rep Power: 0	Not sure I understand the Inquirer's point...where's the nVidia P4 chipset that'll be doing the competing? What nVidia is doing as far as I can see is competing successfully with VIA's Athlon-chipset products.

Jul 14, 2003, 01:59 PM	#4
AlternateVirus DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 282 Rep Power: 0	^ yep im one of them pissed off nf2 users.