How's the build-in video quality on the nForce board?

[WalkingDead]

I'm not a gamer. I basically need the video to handels Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Lightwave, XSI and video editing softwares. Can I expect near ATI kind of screen quality from the build-in video of the nForec motherboards? Any of the nForce boards offer a DVI output?

My pass experience led stay clear of Nvidia graphic cards, with the exception of the SUMA brand, due to their bad screen quality in general. I'm planning to build a brief case PC with a 15" LCD instead of buying a labtop. It looks the Abit mATX board will fits perfectly other than no overclocking (for an Abit board?). It has decent build-in NIC, sound and graphic. This way, I don't even need to add anything and it will have a nice low profile to fit in one side of an aluminum brief case. A Planar of KDS 15" LCD monitor w/ the base removed will be on the other side of the brief case. I'll use a low profile Arcticooler HS (rated 1.4ghz for AMD) for the CPU.

Any feedback on the nForce video quality or the Abit Micro ATX board is appreciated.

 

[Gstanfor]

I cannot speak for the abit nforce board, but the 2D quality on MSi's K7N420 Pro is excellent, much better than a lot of the cheaper GF MX stand alone cards IMO.

Greg

 

[Snoop]

<< I cannot speak for the abit nforce board, but the 2D quality on MSi's K7N420 Pro is excellent, much better than a lot of the cheaper GF MX stand alone cards IMO. >>


Ditto here, it probably isnt in the matrox class, but it performs well.

 

[Dreadogg]

yes I like the 2-D on the MSI board also, the 3-D is not that bad also!

 

[MasterHoss]

GeForce2's are known to have horrible 2D support.

 

[bluemax]

???? 😕 ?????

This is the first time I've heard THAT one!! Are you sure of what you're saying, or are you just making the snap judgement:
No filters = bad 2D display.

There's other onboard video that's perfectly clear, not Matrox but far from bad like the ASUS GF2MX card I tried. Intel and SiS are notably good in my experience. ProSavage is not bad.

I haven't heard any nForce reviewers complain about the 2D quality yet...

 

[Gstanfor]

<< nForce 2D quality not only it's not better than that of a regular GF2MX, but considerably worse, IMVHO, due to the complexity of on-board graphics implementation. They have to skip some filters and resistors to place it all onboard, thus sacrificing the image quality. >>


Here we go again. People who know nothing of the actual product bashing it.

Tell me geared, do you own an nforce? Have you actually compared the visual quality against standalone cards?

I can tell you from first hand experience that the 2d quality of the nforce integrated graphics is better than that of geforce2 MX boards from Hercules, Leadtek, Jaton and ASUS.

I've seen all the above in action on one monitor (one of the benefits of being a system builder).

Greg