Jetway 939GT4-SLI: Gem with a New SLI Twist
by Wesley Fink on August 24, 2005 8:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Test Setup
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4GHz) Socket 939 |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM SATA (8MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce 6.66 |
| Video Cards: | NVIDIA 6800 Ultra (PCIe) NVIDIA 6800 Ultra (AGP) |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce 77.77 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP2 Direct X 9.0c |
| Motherboards: | Jetway 939GT4-SLI-G (nForce4) ULi AP9567A (M1695/M1567) Abit An8 Fatal1ty Biostar NF4UL-A9 Chaintech VNF4-Ultra DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D ECS KN1 Extreme Epox 9NPA+ Ultra Winfast NF4UK8AA (Foxconn) Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI MSI K8N neo4/SLI Platinum |
Tests used OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2, which uses Samsung TCCD chips. All memory ran at 2-2-2-7 timing in all benchmarks.
The NVIDIA 6800 Ultra was used for testing both PCIe and AGP performance on the ULi board. The 6800 Ultra video cards were tested at the same video timings and differed only in interface - AGP or PCIe. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1280x1024x32 unless otherwise noted.
All single and dual GPU benchmarks were run with a matched pair of NVIDIA 6800 Ultra reference cards, identified as Rev. A04. All game benchmarks, both single video and SLI, were run in 1600x1200 video mode with 4X Anti-Aliasing and 8X Anisotropic filtering enabled. The exception is Aquamark 3, which uses a standardized 1024x768 setup to generate comparable benchmark results.
Results for the Jetway 939GT4-SLI are color-coded in red in all graphs. Results for the other boards are in blue.
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joex444 - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
Maybe a lil OT, as it applies to any SLI board, but:Can you run a video card in one of the green slots and then use a PCIe RAID5 card, like the Areca x8 RAID5/6 8 port SATA card?
I do need RAID5, I run a development web server with a SQL server on my PC.
Furen - Thursday, August 25, 2005 - link
I would guess yes, since you can throw a 1x device onto 16x slot and they work fine. Of course your graphics performance will be slightly worse, but the difference should be negligible.Leper Messiah - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
$129 SLi board with this kind of performance? I'm there! Dual core 3800+ Jetway mobo, and an x800xl or something for now seems to be very tempting right now...slsmnaz - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
Why is an SLI board w/ an x800xl tempting?OvErHeAtInG - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
Because he could upgrade to 7800 GTX/GT SLI's when the price comes down.ncasebee - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
You are sure that this is the same board as the one included in EVGA's free mobo deal? If it is, I see no reason not to get this board, and save myself the money.Furen - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
You could always ask EVGA directly... say something like "I've heard good things about the Jetway motherboard and was wondering if they are manufacturing it for you" or something of the sort, heh.Furen - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
OK, I went into EVGA's support forums and though the motherboard is a rebranded Jetway they are pretty behement about you not using the Jetway bios. It might just be them throwing a bit of FUD at you but I just wanted to point it out. By the way, it seems that their current bios is a bit flaky on the overclocking front (Jetway's has already been fixed, it seems).Calin - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
than on other boards made by Jetway. We had one board (from several bought less than three years ago, in several months) gone bad - the capacitors were dead.Other than that, I wonder if one could use all three PCI-E slots (having one 16x card and two 8x cards), and if not, a chipset change could solve that
Calin
joex444 - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
Remember that this is just a paddle-less design. With the paddle you can't use the 2nd PCIe x16 slot if it is set to single mode; you need to switch the paddle to dual mode which cuts it to two x8 slots each physically having a x16 connector. Either way, there are only 16 usable lanes.It's the same thing, plug a card in the yellow and the "paddle" is set to single x16; plug a card in the green and the "paddle" is set to dual x8.