Nvidia's new offering

[pbuckne 0]

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020716/index.html

What'cha'all think of this?

[Brian Frank 0]

I'm very excited about the nForce 2. I use an nForce 1 motherboard in my box and it is excellent. Yes, it's got a high level of integration--but it doesn't suck like most integration we've seen. I only need to use a video card, as I got a board without the integrated video. I think the nForce 2 is gonna give Via, SiS, and ALi a serious run for their money. The only company I think that's really gonna be a problem is AMD and their 8000 series chipsets. 2nd, for all the people who gripe about there not being a fast and stable platform for AMD can seriously shut the hell up now. nForce is the answer, and while it got off to a rocky start, it's the best chipset for just about anything, save heavy overclocking--though this could be the mobo companies getting used to a mobo chipset from nVidia.

[Admiral LSD 0]

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Going to wait & see how this NV30 thingie works out to beat the new ATI 9700 that's wiping the floors with the GeForce4 Ti4600 lately even!

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APK

The Radeon 9700 is a definite "wait and see" item in my books. ATI have been known to "play" benchmark results in the past and historically, their drivers have proven to be less than reliable. If these results are genuine and the release drivers deliver the same amount of performance and are as reliable these pre-release drivers seem to be then they're gold. nVidia need a decent competitor to help bring down their ridiculous prices but ATi won't be that competitor until they can correct the mistakes of the past.

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From the article:
There was certainly nothing wrong with the features. Even today, the nForce420/D is the only chipset that has a dual-channel memory interface.

Ummm... Don't Intels RDRAM chipsets (particularly the i850) utilise dual memory channels? Isn't that why you have to install RIMMs in pairs?

[JP- 0]

yes the 850 does

[jdulmage 0]

Not to mention that most of the breath taking results are from using DX 9.0, which isn't scheduled for a while as it is.

[Brian Frank 0]

The ATI's drivers are bad has been a pointless argument since at least December. ATI has shaped up big time in the driver arena. Anyone that's still pushing the ATI drivers sucks campaign hasn't used one of their cards in recent times.

[DosFreak 2]

Here we go again... Let's see if the situation is the same with the Radeon 8500's and below driver situation the same time next year.

 

 

I already know how it'll turn out.