NVIDIA's nForce 420/220: It's finally here
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 24, 2001 8:26 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Testing the Beast
It's obvious that we couldn't have tackled this review like any other chipset review since there are too many variables we'd end up ignoring. Because of this we have divided the performance results into three distinct sections:
- Chipset comparison benchmarks comparing the nForce to the rest of the Socket-A chipset solutions
- Head to Head gaming performance tests comparing the nForce to its chief competitor: VIA's KT266.
- Audio performance vs. a SB Live!
In the future we hope to be able to better test the Ethernet and Dolby Digital capabilities of the MCP but as we mentioned earlier, the reference board would not allow it.
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Windows 2000 Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
AMD Athlon-C 1.4GHz | |||||
| Motherboard(s) | ASUS
A7M266 (AMD760) ASUS A7V133 (KT133A) ECS K7S5A (SiS735) MSI K7T266 Pro (KT266) NVIDIA nForce 420-D Reference Board (nForce) VIA KT266A Reference Board (KT266A) |
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| Memory |
256MB
DDR266 Crucial DDR SDRAM (Micron CAS2) |
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2 |
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Dr AB - Sunday, May 10, 2020 - link
Max Payne - Brings a lot of good memories from that era. Running it at 1024x768 at max quality and getting ~30 fps? Really impressive for a iGPU of that time.I remembr playing it on Pentium III 500 with ATI Radeon Pro AGP 2X 4MB. Performance was really terrible due to texture swapping .. even at 800x600.