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    Exclamation NFORCE 3 Preview/Sneak Peek

    Interesting preview here at Tbreak...:
    http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/articl...3&pagenumber=1
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    Whoa, that Socket/Pad/whatever it is for the CPU looks totaly killer!

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    Originally posted by Hans Moleman
    Sweet But how long do I have to wait to get one?
    I'm hoping around September...(2003)
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    UMMM... I'm not liking the benchies they're getting here... The XP2100 is killing it at everything but memory bandwidth. However, they must have used crappy ram in the nforce2 board because I can get better sandy numbers out of my via board with HyperX. I'll be waiting for more info before delving praises to this chipset/opteron cpu combo.
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    Originally posted by drs1771
    UMMM... I'm not liking the benchies they're getting here... The XP2100 is killing it at everything but memory bandwidth. However, they must have used crappy ram in the nforce2 board because I can get better sandy numbers out of my via board with HyperX. I'll be waiting for more info before delving praises to this chipset/opteron cpu combo.
    Of course you're not liking the benchies, it's running a BETA bios! That's why I called it a "Sneek Peek" it ain't ready for prime time-yet.
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    omg! i dont think ive seen a board with the ram so far away from the AGP slot, they have really gone to town on keep the DIMM access clear of the AGP! lol

    [EDIT] thought id better comment on the performance, well, it doesnt stand out, but for a 1.6ghz CPU looks pretty good compared with the 3ghz P4.
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