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nForce2 Preview

Posted by michael on from the chips-and-dips dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "I noticed that a review of NVIDIA's nForce2 chipset has been posted here. From what I can gather the chipset contains two 10/100 ethernet controllers, six USB 2.0 ports, UltraATA133 support, three 1394 ports, five PCI slots, and an integrated GeForce4 MX core including NVIDIA's nView technology and a TV Tuner." Tom's Hardware and NVNews also have looks at it.

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  1. remember: it's not a geforce4! by imr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On the topic of current Nvidia cards:

    Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom.

    Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always
    thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had
    significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the
    speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks.

    GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath
    with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be
    much better performers    . The GF4-MX may still be the card of choice for many
    people depending on pricing, especially considering that many games won't use
    four textures and vertex programs, but damn, I wish they had named it
    something else.
    (all this comes from carmack's .plan:
    http://webdog.org/plans/1/ )

    It seems nvidia is going the same road as intel and sis with their cheap video-on-board motherboard. All of them sucked! Good luck!