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Nforce1 to Nforce2?

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RagingGuardian

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