Ordinarily, motherboard reviews are rather consistent. Take six boards, swap out a few features, tweak prices a little bit, swing performance a few percent from a medium in either direction, and that's your average round-up. Its one reason we instituted a different rating system, so as to give readers a better feel for the differences between each motherboard. This time out we've got six boards based on NVIDIA's nForce2 chipset to look at and some real differences to discuss, both in terms of feature sets and overall board quality / performance. Before reviewing the specific boards, however, a general overview of the NF2 chipset is in order