Is there a comparison of nForce2 IGP motherboards somewhere?

[Macro2]

Maybe too early but any help would be appreciated. Just wondered if they all perform about the same in video....and which ones have firewire and soundstorm if any.

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[can564]

Macro I am running an Aopen MK79G-MAX.I love the board it's loaded with features.It comes with 4-rear 2-front USB ports, Firewire,On board LAN,IGP but also 8X AGP slot if you up grade in the future,SATA Raid if you like plus the ATA133 IDE connections.I am sure I missed some features.Include software to help you on you're way like ,SilentTech CPU fan control to quite down the fans,WinBios you can flash your BIOS in a Window environment and EZ clock overclocking from Windows.It also has nForce2 soundstorm controls for your sound and Nvidia Geforce4 software.

I did not have good luck at first.I moved Windows ME onto this motherboard and I could never work out some conflicts that seemed to haunt the machine.XP home solved all problems and let this motherboard really shine.

WWW.AMDBOARD.COM has reviews listed that include IGP boards but do not always put them head to head.Go to the site click "hardware",under K7 chipset click nForce2,the bottom of the page shows an excellent line up of all nForce2 boards with review columns above.The site enabled me to make my choice quite easily.

Hope this helps!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CZroe]

Anand has an nForce2 roundup and there's usually an off-site NF2 roundup linked off to the side at any given time (However, the current one only covers one IGP board).

If it means anything the MSI K7N2G-LISR's (LAN, IEEE1394, Serial ATA RAID) integrated graphics blew me away. I was not expecting them to run todays latest games and quite literally had an AGP8x GeForce4 Ti4200 ready to put in it on arrival. Now it seems like a waste to use the card in a system that can already play Unreal II at full-speed with the detail turned up. Of course, it's GeForce2-based core can't run half the benchmarks in 3Dmark2001 and crashes on the only supported test from 3Dmark2003 (at least mine does).