opinions on the Albatron KM18G Socket A Motherboard

[PHiSHnz]

Albatron KM18G Socket A Motherboard
microATX, nVidia nForce2 chipset, 333Mhz FSB,
3x184pin DDR slots, 1xAGP 3xPCI 2xIDE ATA133 *2xUSB2
*integrated GeForce-4 MX Graphics *Integrated 6 Channel Audio *Integrated LAN

im kinda poor at the moment and was wondering at how the onboard graphics handled games n such, and whether it uses the ram in the pc??

 

[Sazar]

Originally posted by PHiSHnz
Albatron KM18G Socket A Motherboard
microATX, nVidia nForce2 chipset, 333Mhz FSB,
3x184pin DDR slots, 1xAGP 3xPCI 2xIDE ATA133 *2xUSB2
*integrated GeForce-4 MX Graphics *Integrated 6 Channel Audio *Integrated LAN

im kinda poor at the moment and was wondering at how the onboard graphics handled games n such, and whether it uses the ram in the pc??

supposedly quite good though I am not a fan of IGP's...

disable that if you can and just run your own video card

um... nm I just read the rest of your post... what card do you currently have...

depending on that it will be easier to describe the performance level of the product in question...

 

[Goatman]

It's a good board, and it does share onboard RAM, but if you have a decent amount of RAM it doesn't really matter... anoher board with the IGP you could look at is the MSI K7N2G, it is a full ATX board, not a mATX like the Albatron.

 

[Taurus]

sweet, albatron has an mATX nforce2 board.

the onboard graphics are comparable to a gf4mx (420?). but since it shares it's memory with the system, if you got 2 sticks (dual-ddr) of pc2700 or pc3200 and had all that memory bandwidth, that should directly increase your video performance.

can't say i've seen any reviews/benchmarks of the IGP to support this, though.