The Magnificent Seven: GeForce3 Board Round-up : Introduction

07:00 - Monday 9 July 2001 by Uwe Scheffel
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: the, magnificent, seven

Table of content:
1 – Introduction
  1. 1 – Introduction
  2. 2 – GeForce3 Up Close & Personal
  3. 3 – The Boards In Brief
  4. 4 – Asus V8200 Deluxe
  5. 5 – Asus V8200 Deluxe, Continued
  6. 6 – Video Encoder And Decoder In One Chip
  7. 7 – Drivers
  8. 8 – Drivers, Continued
  9. 9 – Asus Taskbar
  10. 10 – Video Recorder
  11. 11 – Asus Live
  12. 12 – Hardware Monitor
  13. 13 – Elsa Gladiac 920
  14. 14 – Video Module
  15. 15 – Drivers
  16. 16 – Gainward CARDEXpert GeForce3
  17. 17 – Video-In And Video-Out With Philips Chip
  18. 18 – Powerpack / Expert Tool
  19. 19 – Expert Tool, Continued
  20. 20 – Taskbar
  21. 21 – Video Recorder, Continued
  22. 22 – Video Recorder, Continued
  23. 23 – Hercules 3D Prophet III
  24. 24 – Connectors And TV-Out
  25. 25 – Drivers
  26. 26 – Leadtek WinFast GeForce3
  27. 27 – Drivers
  28. 28 – Drivers, Continued
  29. 29 – Taskbar
  30. 30 – Winfox
  31. 31 – MSI Starforce822
  32. 32 – Connectors And VIVO Module
  33. 33 – Drivers
  34. 34 – 3D! Turbo
  35. 35 – 3D! Turbo, Continued
  36. 36 – 3D! Turbo, Continued
  37. 37 – Visiontek GeForce3
  38. 38 – TV-Out Connector
  39. 39 – Drivers
  40. 40 – Test Methodology And Configuration
  41. 41 – Game Benchmarks At 1024x768
  42. 42 – MDK2 1024
  43. 43 – Aquamark 1024
  44. 44 – Quake3 Normal 1024
  45. 45 – Quake3 High Quality 1024
  46. 46 – Dronez 1024
  47. 47 – MTBR 1024
  48. 48 – Game Benchmarks At 1600x1200
  49. 49 – MDK 1600
  50. 50 – Aquamark 1600
  51. 51 – Quake3 Normal 1600
  52. 52 – Quake3 High Quality 1600
  53. 53 – Dronez 1600
  54. 54 – MTBR 1600
  55. 55 – 3DMark 2000/2001 At 1024x768
  56. 56 – 3DMark2001 At 1024x768
  57. 57 – 3DMark 2000/2001 At 1280x1024
  58. 58 – 3DMark2001 1280x1024
  59. 59 – Overclocking
  60. 60 – Recommendations
  61. 61 – Features Table

Introduction

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The flagship of the PC graphics business is GeForce3. Unfortunately, if you tried to buy a GeForce3 card in recent weeks you may have experienced a big disappointment. Despite the press being able to test GeForce3 as early as March, the average customer sought for boards in vain. In fact, it wasn't until the beginning of June that the first boards began to appear on store shelves.

Maybe, NVIDIA had taken on too much. The GeForce3 had, in fact, been scheduled for launch in January. At Cebit in March, NVIDIA claimed that delivery would begin soon thereafter. When the end of May rolled around and there still weren't any GeForce3 graphics cards on the market, a lot of users began to get annoyed. Fantastic test results are useless if you can only read about them.

Now, finally, consumer demand is being met - NVIDIA has officially introduced revision A5 of the chip, after having chucked the A3 stepping as "non-final." Tom's Hardware has taken this opportunity to test seven GeForce3 graphics cards from Asus, Elsa, Hercules, Gainward, Leadtek, MSI and Visiontek.


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