News: Nforce2 : Leadtek vs Chaintech

[Staff]

<br>Hot Hardware ha messo a <a href="http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/Motherboards/7njs_k7ncr18.shtml">confronto</a> due schede madri basate entrambe sul tanto acclamato chipset di Nvidia, l' Nforce2; ovvero la Chaintech 7NJS Zenith e la Leadtek K7NCR18D
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<p><blockquote>After running this second generation nForce chip through the trenches and back, it's easy to see the improvements from NVIDIA's first crack at it. The biggest improvement being the Dual Channel DDR or "TwinBank", as NVIDIA likes to call it. The 128-bit DDR memory bus gives us the opportunity to compete bandwidth wise, at the level of Pentium 4 platforms and the i850E chipset. What's not to like about this? We're talking about an AMD platform that delivers blazing performance at a significantly lower price point. I have to say that Dual Channel DDR is what everyone has been waiting for and after running these tests, we see that it can perform. Now it's a matter of playing the waiting game, to see if the other chipset giants such as VIA or SIS will put out a Dual Channel solution to compete with NVIDIA's nForce2. For now, I think we can all agree we have a winner with the nForce2 chipset.