Is it really worth upgrading nForce into nF2??

posted by jand,
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sigh... no it is not...
just reflecting that my poor nForce will be considered old and it didn't even have the chance to be a 1 year old....
oh the humanity! can't a poor motherboard get the chance to grow old gracefully? must we boot it out of the door before it even reached their prime??
Oh well, cest la vie.
ps: i was hoping that my nforce would miraculously transform into an nforce2 but i guess that won't be possible.
nvidia haven't thought them how to evolve yet
Markoul's Opinion: I believe, and despite what idea MSI likes to promote to the forum, that it is NOT worth the money unless you are desperate for a feature not in the original nForce. These are:
-Integrated GF4MX
- Support of new line of AthlonXP processors T/bred B' (166MHz FSB) thus AthlonXP 2700+(2.15GHz) and 2800+
(2.24GHz)
-PC3200 (400MHz) DDR Memory Support (up to 3Gigs)
-Firewire support
-USB 2.0 support
-ATA 133
-AGP X8
-dual NIC's and router, additional to the integrated in the chipset nVidia NIC there is now also possible the use of a second NIC depending on the board manufacturer working simultaneously via an integrated router.
-Lastly, depending on the board manufacturer, the possibility of 6 on-board analog Audio outputs (no need for a CNR) or/and an optical SPIDIF(?)
That's all it really is. So if you still can not hold your horses then be my guest and GO ON spend your beans in upgrading your very aged out nForce :P (not even a year long) into a new miraculous nForce2 which assuming you will not upgrade CPU, will give you a whole 10% boost maximum in real life applications....WOW!! :P :P ...i am impressed.
Nevertheless, not to be misunderstood, for the rest of the people (not already owning a nForce) nForce 2 is the ultimate Athlon CPU platform so far and the best upgrade someone can possible do. Especially for VIA guys :D
......I never in my life upgraded h/w within a year and possible never will. Never, really a Geek and always like to get my money back with time. Not really a consuming freak....sorry :P
So, i am not convinced upgrading nForce into nForce2, any different opinions are most welcome.
Markoul

hi all,
thanks for the comments.
Yup markoul, you're right and definitely have no plans to purchase an nForce2 as i'm still satisfied with my current one and the only weak link now is the int. GF2MX vid card.
Most of my friends are complaining that i'm underutilising my cpu anyway.... and i'm a guy who just upg. my pc for the first time in 5 years (yes, i was on a pentium based machine) so u could say i'm a slow tech adopter.
However i usually go for the std base platform at the time and i thought nforce will give me the best bang for the buck as it comes with int. GF2mx as i don't want to invest so soon on an external card yet with all the goodies on the horizon though most ppl don't understand why i stuck with this nforce.
I'm setting my eyes on the next 'evolution' and that's the clawhammer and if they are going to delay it, then by all means... better late with solid support rather than a finicky system.
Here's my wishlist:
1) an self-evolving system... hehe.. a system that gets better each time u use it..
2) vid cards that are socketed so u could change the VPU/GPU like mobos & cpus ... that'll be interesting but i think we'll need the vid card market to mature in size like the cpu market

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