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Gigabyte 7NF-RZ (Rev 1) Motherboard

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First post, by m5215tx

Posted on 2017-05-07, 14:41

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Anyone has one of these or is familiar with it? It was given to me but I know next to nothing about Nvidia chipset based motherboards. Its in great shape and I was told it was pulled from a working system. Is this a good motherboard or more trouble than its worth?

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Reply 1 of 5, by Gatewayuser200

Posted on 2017-05-07, 19:14

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Usually, nforce2 based socket A boards are among the fastest socket A boards available since they support dual channel DDR. However, your board has three memory slots and the manual doesn't mention dual channel operation so it might not support it which makes it a slower and a typically less desirable board.

Test it out. If it works and its the only older board you have, it would make a good board for a Windows 9x gaming PC.

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Reply 2 of 5, by m5215tx

Posted on 2017-05-08, 00:16

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I already have 2 Intel chipset based motherboards with Intel CPUs (PIII 1GHz & P4 1.6GHz) runnning W98SE and ME. I have always preferred Intel hardware as the last time I had AMD processors was back with the great 386DX 40MHz and 486DX4 120MHz 🤣. Since this was given to me its a bit of an oddity in my collection so I guess I will play around with it. Thanks for the feedback!

Reply 3 of 5, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-05-08, 03:00

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Gatewayuser200 wrote:
Usually, nforce2 based socket A boards are among the fastest socket A boards available since they support dual channel DDR. Your board has three slots and the manual doesn't mention dual channel operation so it might not support it which makes it a slower and a typically less desirable board.

Test it out. If it works and its the only older board you have, it would make a good board for a Windows 9x gaming PC.

In practice, dual channel wasn't very compelling. It provided some extra bandwidth for off CPU DMA transfers, but the FSB was limiting for CPU related memory operations. The nforce2 did have an efficient memory controller which was arguably more important.

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Reply 4 of 5, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2017-05-08, 03:19

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I looked into nForce2 in this video: https://youtu.be/z_sfv8kO3Nw

With dual channel and CL2 memory, it can achieve a nice lead over a KT600 system for example. So yea, well worth keeping / using.

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Reply 5 of 5, by m5215tx

Posted on 2017-05-08, 13:26

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PhilsComputerLab wrote:
I looked into nForce2 in this video: https://youtu.be/z_sfv8kO3Nw

With dual channel and CL2 memory, it can achieve a nice lead over a KT600 system for example. So yea, well worth keeping / using.

Thanks for the info. I will check out your video to get more familiar with it. I have a Voodoo 5500 AGP sitting around doing nothing so maybe this would be a good home for it?

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