nForce chipset drivers ? (WAS: Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?)

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:33:33 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > It is wierd that some people have exactly the opposite situation.  I
> > find a Dell 2.4Gz Celeron running WinXP is slower to get IE up and
> > running than Ubuntu starting Firefox.  It is about twice as fast than
> > windows, here.
> 
> Hu ?? That is really very weird ! :o(
> Does that mean that my machine is very strange ?? :-/
> Or maybe it's because of my motherboard. It has the nForce (one)
> chipset. It comes with Windows drivers on a CD, but under Linux I am not
> sure how good the drivers are, nor where they come from. Maybe then, the
> Linux drivers are not as good as the windows drivers ? I guess that it
> would affect overall performance of the machine (memory, disk, and PCI
> data transfers)....this would explain that....
> Sounds a reasonable guess, what do you think ?
> 
> What driver does Ubuntu use for the nForce chipset ? Maybe Nvidia has a
> binary driver that would work better ?
> 
> Hmmm, that sounds great then, maybe if I can find a better driver, all
> of a sudden Ubuntu will execute at the speed of light like windows
> does....sweet dreams... :o)
> 
I have an nforce2 chipset, and this machine makes a very nice gaming
machine.. so no real speed issue's here.

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