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First Mass Mainboard on NVIDIA nForce3 250: Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-250 Review (page 14)

Category: Chipsets

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 04/07/2004 | 03:15 PM ]

Performance in 3DMark 2001 and 3DMark03

Before measuring the fps rate in popular 3D games, we usually run 3DMark2001 SE and 3DMark03 for a start. Let’s do it today, too:

The results of the mainboards on different Athlon 64 chipsets are nearly the same. Note, however, that NVIDIA nForce3 250 is a worthy contender – it has a higher CPU score in 3DMark03 than its main rival, VIA K8T800.

Performance in 3D Games

Aquamark3 is a hard test that uses a real gaming engine of the last generation. You can see from the diagrams that NVIDIA nForce3 250 is faster than its predecessor, nForce3 150. As a result, the performance of nForce3 250 is nearly the same as that of other participating chipsets.