NVIDIA's nForce2 Performance Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 1, 2002 8:18 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
The Test
We started out by comparing nForce2 to VIA's KT400, however we quickly realized that motherboards based on VIA's KT400 chipset aren't as mature as some of the better KT333 boards (a good KT333 board will outperform a KT400 board at this point). So instead we used the EPoX 8K3A+ (which ended up outperforming the KT400s we originally tried) and didn't bother with DDR400 tests on the VIA platform since we've already proved that the higher bandwidth memory does nothing for the Athlon XP.
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Windows
XP Professional Test Bed
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Hardware
Configuration
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| CPU |
AMD
Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz)
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| Motherboard |
ASUS
A7N8X - NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset
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| RAM |
1
x 256MB DDR400 CAS2 Corsair XMS3200 DIMM
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| Sound |
None
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| Hard Drive |
80GB
Western Digital Special Edition 8MB Cache ATA/100 HDD
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| Video Cards (Drivers) |
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 (30.82) |
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Anonymous User - Monday, October 20, 2003 - link
Well we actually have been eagerly awaiting the release of NVIDIA's second Athlon XP chipset. Our expectations for the chipset weren't unreasonably high, which was the case with the original nForce, and there are many more launch partners this time around