Will I notice a Huge General Performance Drop Between Nforce3 and a Via Chipset?

[kiyotaka]

Appearntly Nvidia F'd up. and the 6800 Series are completely Incompatable with the Nforce3.. Causes stuttering/lag issues in game NO FIX YET (known for a year or more)

anyhow I really don't wanna pull a board out of my water cooled system and spend another 100 bucks.. Unless there will be relatively little performance differance.. Never used any of Via's products so...

 

[kiyotaka]

Also What Board would you people reccomend that is socket 754 and has a via chipset. for gaming.


I allready have AGPFW disabled Btw.. but it lags every now and then still.. Can screw up some games.

 

[Elbatrop1]

Before you go and buy some new stuff, there is a couple other things you can do to try and prevent the stuttering that is common with NF3 boards and 6XXX vid cards. Have a look here:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=4758&st=0

But, to answer your original question, perhaps, this mobo would be good for you. It uses the VIA chipset and meets your other requirements. I cant give you a personal review on this mobo, as I have not used it myself. I can tell you that MSI has a pretty good reputation, and I dont forsee you having any problems with it.

Previously, I never knew about the NF3/6XXX incompatibility. If I had, I might have gone with a X800XL originally. But, I havent had any problems. Perhaps the newer releases of the 6XXX cards and NF3 mobos have the problem resolved, as I have built my system fairly recently.

 

[kiyotaka]

tried all the things on the forum.. it only surpresses the problem.. not fixes