Nforce1 to Nforce2?

[RagingGuardian]

I'm currently using an A7N266-VN Nforce1 board and am thinking of making the jump to a Matx Nforce2 board. I'm wondering if the performance increase is even worth the money I'd have to spend to get the new board.

BTW I tried to search google for a review that compares the 2 different chipsets but can't seem to find any.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Well the highest score in the futuremock database for NF1 415D is 3300, NF2 is 6800. a couple architectual enhancements to the original GF2MX and better memory performance make it roughly twice as fast. However, if you were just looking to improve 2D/3D performance and the advantages of the NF2's DASP,DC-DDR, and greater CPU and FSB support are lost upon you then just buying a faster vid card in the same price range of the NF2 board you were considering would be a better upgrade.

It just occured to me that you are referring to the chipset performance and not the IGP performance, duh! As far as that goes, the 415D usually scored between the KT266A and KT333ce chipsets performance wise. The SC-DDR 220D like the A7N266-VM was slower than all 3 and should be noticably slower than the nf2 depending on the usage.

 

[bootoo]

I hated my nforce 1 board. A big factor in my upgrading to a kt400 via board. Then I got the nforce 2 itch and I love it.

 

[mechBgon]

I made that switch a while back, straight from a 1700+ on nForce1 (A7N266-VM/AA) to a 1700+ on nForce2 (A7N8X-Deluxe). I did some benchmarking and it could just be that the CPU was the bottleneck, but it wasn't a large performance difference in the things I was using to test (WinZip compression times, for instance). In gaming, I'd expect to see some jumps in performance. Whether I would be able to discern them... not sure.

All the same, with that change I also paved the way for the 2500+ that I got later, and I gained Firewire, USB 2.0, a third DIMM slot (which I use), a SATA controller (which I don't), AGP 8X (for what it's worth) and an upgrade path to a 3200+ if desired (but at this point, I'm waiting to see the Athlon 64).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

(but at this point, I'm waiting to see the Athlon 64).

I've seen all I need to see for what I'm after brudda, now it's just a matter of price/performance ratio on the nF3 platform :clock: