amanz19905
New Member
I have been looking at amd motherboards and like the features offered by Nvidia's Nforce3 ultra chipsets such as built in 8 chanel audio that dosent use codec, built in gigabit that actually can use one gigabit if needed, built in firewall, raid, up to 4 sata ports (onboard?) and it has 3 ata133 interfaces, and of course firewire and usb2.0 all of which is handled by the chipset. Yet Gigabyte, the only maker of motherboards using the Nforce3ultra fails to use most of the chipsets abilities with the exception of the normal unctions of a chipset! instead of using this great chipset they use a:
Silicon Image sil3512 controller
T.I. IEEE1394b controller
ICS 1883 LAN PHY chip
Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
and worst of all instead of usingf the 8 chanel audio the chipset provides they use Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec
Silicon Image sil3512 controller
T.I. IEEE1394b controller
ICS 1883 LAN PHY chip
Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
and worst of all instead of usingf the 8 chanel audio the chipset provides they use Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec