Is NVIDIA the new VIA?

[LiamC]

NVIDIA cuts TCP offloads to end data corruption.
http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/9483

Active Armor data corruption,
SATA issues (reported previously),
EIDE driver issues, and,
I am sure there was another issue with nForce 3 or 4, though my memory could be failing.

Via hasn't had data corruption issues, though the K8T890 rev. 1 that didn't work with X2's was a cock up. Can't trust anybody these days.

 

[MaxBurn]

USB issues:
http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5398
Never solved, used up one of my two PCI slots with a USB card.

Werent the IDE issues pretty much limited to Maxtor drives and, now that they have a new firmware for those drives, solved?

 

[Will Rickards]

THere is a thread around here where I detailed my issues with the onboard nic in my nforce4 based motherboard. I would download stuff and it would randomly switch sections of the download. I have to use the second nic, a marvel one. Glad to see some recognition of the problem.

 

[mubs]

I'm new to nForce4, but when I was researching them (a few weeks ago) I learned early on not to trust the nForce NIC but to use the Marvell one instead. Also to use the bare minimum of the nForce sw - chipset only, no lan, IDE, etc.

I really hope there ain't no onboard SATA / IDE issues. I'm using PATA only for opticals, and the nForce SATA II for HDDs. I'm screwed if there's a problem with either. Say it ain't so.