Nforce, NEBODY????

[muffinman]

I'm your typical pre-x-mas upgrader, I'm a bit miffed about the Nforce, first i saw an article on here a few weeks back saying the nforce smoked VIA's 266 with an athlon 1800 in each. Then i read another article on THG that says the nvidia stinks......whats the deal....also, I don't play games but I am starting to do alot of 3d rendering/programming for school.......does the onboard graphics on the Nforce really serve up some nice eyecandy(also, is it running at 6x agp?) , or will a cost comparative such as a via266 in an epox or ecs K7S5a with ati radeon 7500 do the trick; all running an athlon xp 1800??

 

[splice]

Well, the NForce did/still does smoke the KT266. VIA released another chipset, the KT266A which performs better than the NForce.

 

[muffinman]

You know anything about the ECS K7VTA3 with VIA 266A??......are these boards buggy, longlasting?? Thanx

 

[Migroo]

Well the way I see it (and yes its an opinion)

nVidia products are perfect for hardcare gamers.
Other products (like ATi) are more suitable for me (I do a little bit of everything) as I find the better image quality (especially 2D) a worthwhile tradeoff for the lower 3D performance (then again, I'd take a 8500 over a Ti500 even if I WAS after the best 3D performance)