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 6.56
Video Cards: NVIDIA 6800 Ultra (PCIe)
NVIDIA 6800 Ultra (AGP)
Video Drivers: NVIDIA nForce 77.72
Operating System(s): Windows XP Professional SP2
Direct X 9.0c
Motherboards: 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)

Tests used OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2, which uses Samsung TCCD chips. All memory ran at 2-2-2-10 timing in all benchmarks.

The NVIDIA 6800 Ultra was used for testing both PCIe and AGP performance on the ULi and Biostar boards. 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 noted otherwise.

Results for the ULi M1695/M1567 are color-coded red for PCIe and Orange for AGP in all graphs. Results for the other seven boards, all based on the nForce4 Ultra chipset, are in blue.

tRAS and Memory Stress Testing General Performance & Encoding
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  • stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link

    Try that...Does that work?
    [url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url]
  • stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link


    Check it out...ASRock's 939Dual-SATA2
    [url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url

    Supports AGP, PCI-Express, and a CPU Upgrade feature (Supports Socket M2).
  • Manzelle - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link

    #39 - Ditto.
  • saiku - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    aha, I can now stop thinking about what I'll get on Ebay for my 6800GT AGP card. Awesome !
  • karlreading - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    number 34 - ur so silly.
    i run a amd system and a p4 system. believe me, my pentium 4 is far less stable and BSOD's way more thsan my AMD system.
    so there!
    Karlos!
  • Avalon - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    #34 - "Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.
    Blank"

    Since when were Gigabyte and Abit underdog board makers? They've been around for a while. Anyway, Anand said he had no problems at all with his reference board, so why would you believe that just because the board would be in your hands that it would suddenly become unstable? Afraid it's the AMD? Think again. In fact, while you're doing that, enjoy your Prescott throttling and causing your computer to shut down. You must save tons of money on your electric bill in the winter.
  • PhoneZ - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    #25 "I'd want to know what the drivers are like and no matter how good this chipset is, I doubt it's driver support will be as good as the nVidia."

    Have you seen how bad the nVidia nForce support has been?
    Checkout the nVidia mobo forum:
    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=a549406b86b65...

    The Firewall has never worked, the nVRAID while versatile has numerous quirks (Randomly degraded arrays and lock ups with NCQ/TCQ enabled), the nForce3 has compatibility problems with nVidia video cards. Also with some new nForce4 boards the current driver version doesnt have audio support so your forced to use the realtek one on the CD, which sucks.

    The nForce 4 has been out for quite some time now, and the problems people are having seem to go un-addressed. I have and Nforce4 SLI board and they can be run stable but you have to disable features that are potential selling features of the chipset.
  • Furen - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    wow val, stop fanning the flames ^^
  • val - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.
  • Megatomic - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link

    Oh yeah, this is what I've been hoping for. With one of these boards I can go SD core or X2 and continue to use my 6800GT AGP8X card. Oh happy day! :D

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