Which is faster? Nforce 420 built-in, or Voodoo3 3k?

[Oblique]

I am looking to upgrade my brother's P3 550 with a Athlon 1.4, and the Nforce seems like a solid choice, as he has many aging components. I was looking at Anand's preview of the Nforce, and it made me wonder... Until he can scrounge up the money to upgrade to a worthwhile card (GF2 Ti/Radeon 7500 or better), which is the better performer, a Nforce 220 with his V3 3000 or a Nforce 420 using his built-in?

Thanks in advance -

 

[erikiksaz]

i'm not quite sure about the nforce versions, but i would think the 420 would at least have a geforce 2 mx in it. that shouldn't be hard to research. but to answer your question, i would think the 420 *should* be a better choice, since the v3 is showing its age.

 

[SocrPlyr]

from what i can tell the performance should be pretty comprable since the integrated is slightly behind the mx400 i went back to the original mx article and the mx400 slightly outperformed the v3 3000... but then i would suggest due to drivers the geforce drivers have greatly matured since that article so i would probably give the nforce the advantage over the v3... not to mention that it has a lot more newer features that newer/future games are using...

without a direct comparison i couldn't tell you but i would think that it would equal or slightly better the v3...

Josh

 

[hans007]

from what i read the nforce420 is only a little faster than a mx200. you might as well just get an sis735 and put the v3 in it for now

 

[Didou]

<< the mx400 slightly outperformed the v3 3000 >>



Slightly ? The GeForceMX (the first one) had similar speeds to the V5. I don't think there's any way you can compare both cards. Not to mention that the V3 doesn't do 32-bit rendering, no TnL & 256*256 max texture size.

You might as well go for the nFORCE 420 but I'm not sure it's gonna be out soon.

 

[AgentofEvil]

You guys have got to remeber that the even the dual channel 420 benches nothing like a geforce 2 mx400. Personally I'd take the v3, bt that only because I play UT.

 

[VBboy]

Nforce will probably give you better performance, and definitely better quality. Voodoo3 performs rendering at 16 bit, even though 3dFx used to claim that due to their high-quality dithering it looks like "20 bit", yeah right, I remember that terrible banding in Quake.