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Gaming Benchmarks: UT2003

The Nforce2 boards are uncontested in this particular benchmark. Between the two nForce2 boards, the Abit NF7 lags slightly behind.

Quake III Arena

In Q3A the NF7 continues to lag slightly behind.

Comanche Bench

Conclusion

The Abit NF7 offers generous features, the most notable for us being the complete onboard audio outputs. The BIOS is clean, useable, and functional for overclockers. Performance wise, the board is top knotch for desktop use, though it lagged behind the AU11 in gaming performance.

I have no doubt that if you opt for the NF7 series you should steer yourself towards the NF7-S. For our purposes the audio outputs puts the NF7 in our favour. I'm a little concerned about the consistently lower gaming scores - a 2-3% difference in scores isn't anything to get excited about statiscally, but in a market where 5% is a major difference within a group of boards using the same chipset, hardcore gamers might be adverse to choosing the NF7-S. I think this to be a shame, since the NF7 has top marks in all other areas, including Abit's excellent and peerless website which offers plenty of technical information and details on the features and components compatible with the board.

In making the effort to produce a more popular revision of this board, Abit has shown its commitment to overclockers and hardcore users. This is a company that listens to the community, and their products and the quality of their products show it.

Overall Score: 86%