For the testing the following system components were used to test out the MSI Starforce 822 against the Visiontek Geforce 3:

Test System: Athlon "T-Bird" 1 GHz AVIA 0110 at 1.5 GHz (10x150) Asus A7V133 BIOS 1005-A Via 4in1 4.31V 2x 256 MB PC-100 Apacer Ram 30 GB IBM DeskStar 75 GXP 20 GB Quantum Fireball AS ATI TV Wonder Realtek 10/100 NIC AOpen 56k Modem SB Live! Platinum 5.1

Video cards in comparison: VisionTek GeForce 3 (200/460) Detonator 12.00 VisionTek GeForce 3 (235/550) Detonator 12.00 MSI StarForce 822 (200/460) Detonator 12.00 Software: Windows 98 SE DirectX 8.1 Beta Benchmarks: 3DMark 2001 AquaMark 2.1 Vulpine GLMark Quake III Arena 1.17

Looking at the two cards it is really hard to distinguish between the two. Were it not for the MSI being heavily modded, and outfitted with a DVI video output you'd be hard pressed to tell one card from another. Both the MSI and the Visiontek appear to closely follow the nVidia reference design.

Of course, we're going to start off with everyone's favorite benchmark, 3DMark 2001.