nForce4 Ultra Roundup: Charting the Mainstream
by Wesley Fink on July 5, 2005 10:28 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
General Performance and Encoding
As we would expect, the Biostar performs the same in encoding whether running the PCIe or XGP graphics. This is confirmation that video has little impact on encoding results as we would expect. However, it is impossible to miss how very poorly the Biostar XGP performs in PCMark2004. Clearly, this is not a slot that is equal in performance to AGP 8X.
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lsman - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
yet, "As you can see, none of the onboard audio solutions were quite as low in CPU utilization as the Creative SoundBlaster Live! Chip, which is used on the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum."so creative on board is a reference? because you do not test the MSI K8N Neo4 platium.
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
#2 -As we said several times in the roundup, we reviewed the MSI and Asus in the SLI roundup. The SLI and Ultra chipsets are exactly the same chipset with SLI enabled on the SLI chipset. We did not see what new information we could bring you by reviewing the Ultra versions fo the same boards. As you can see in the benchmarks in this roundup the DFI perfoms in Ultra exactly as it did in SLI.
The MSI was an Editor's Choice in the SLI roundup and is a similar good choice as an Ultra board. There have been some issues with the Venice and San Diego overclocking and MSI has finally released a new BIOS to address these problems.
The Asus was not a particularly good overclocker in the SLI roundup, and not an Editors Choice, but it was a decent performer at stock speeds.
Djinni - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
Very good work, but I too would of liked to see the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum in there since thats what I just bought yesterday :PMaxisOne - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
Nice .. but partially useless considering the Asus A8N-E and MSI offerings are missing from the lineup which is what im looking to compare to the DFI Ultra DChrisSwede - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link