nV News has posted a first look at NVIDIA's nForce2 along with AMD's Athlon XP 2700+ processor.

Processor performance - Sandra 2002, PCMark2002, and Quake 3

Memory bandwidth - Sandra 2002, PCMark2002, and Quake 3

Hard drive performance - ATA-133 vs. ATA-100, nForce IDE Miniport drivers vs. Windows XP IDE drivers

Graphics scaling - Quake 3 and 3DMark2001 SE with the GeForce2 Ti, GeForce3 Ti 500, GeForce4 MX 460, GeForce4 Ti 4200, 4400, and 4600

UT2003 Demo - Flyby demo performance from each map with high quality settings using HardOCP's custom scripts files

SoundStorm - Comments and screenshots of all the nForce2 audio control panels

Morrowind - Putting it all together with a gameplay performance comparison against an nForce and Athlon XP 1800+ system

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