FIRST LOOK: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Performance
by Wesley Fink on September 22, 2005 1:29 PM EST- Posted in
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Basic Features: Biostar TForce 6100-939
It is worth mentioning that Biostar is shipping TForce 6100 micro ATX boards in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 versions. The Socket 754 version, called the TForce 6100, is the same chipset combination and features 2 DIMM slots. The board that we are testing is the TForce 6100-939, obviously supporting Socket 939, and featuring four DIMMs in dual-channel mode. Older A64's, Revision E, and x2 are all supported on this Socket 939 board.
It is worth mentioning that Biostar is shipping TForce 6100 micro ATX boards in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 versions. The Socket 754 version, called the TForce 6100, is the same chipset combination and features 2 DIMM slots. The board that we are testing is the TForce 6100-939, obviously supporting Socket 939, and featuring four DIMMs in dual-channel mode. Older A64's, Revision E, and x2 are all supported on this Socket 939 board.
| Biostar TForce 6100-939 | |
| CPU Interface | Socket 939 Athlon 64 |
| Chipset | NVIDIA GeForce6100 Northbridge - NVIDIA nForce 4100 Southbridge |
| Bus Speeds | 200 to 300MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCIe Speeds | 100 to 125MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCI | Fixed at 33 |
| OnBoard GPU | Auto, Always Enable |
| Frame Buffer (UMA) | 16M, 32M, 64M, 128M, Disabled (64M Default) |
| Core Voltage | Startup, 0.80V to 1.70V in 0.025V increments |
| CPU Clock Multiplier | Startup, 4x-25x in 1X increments |
| HyperTransport Frequency | 1000MHz (1GHz) Supports AMD Cool'n'Quiet |
| HyperTransport Multiplier | Auto, 1X, 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X |
| DRAM Voltage | 2.66V, 2.72V, 2.82V, 2.93V |
| Memory Slots | Four 184-pin DDR DIMM Slots Dual-Channel Configuration Regular Unbuffered Memory to 4GB Total |
| Expansion Slots | 1 PCIe x16 1 PCIe x1 2 PCI Slots |
| Onboard SATA/RAID | 2 SATA II Drives by nForce 410 (RAID 0, 1, JBOD) |
| Onboard IDE/IDE RAID | Two Standard ATA133/100/66 (4 drives) |
| Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 | 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by nF410 No Firewire (Optional) |
| Onboard LAN | 10/100 Ethernet by Realtek 8201 PNY |
| Onboard Audio | AC '97 2.3 6-Channel by Realtek ALC655 |
| BIOS | Phoenix Award |
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wharris1 - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Great article for a chipset with a lot of potential. I was wondering if we'd get southbridge (410/430) performance testing that's been found on most recent motherboard reviews (USB, SATA, audio, etc).blinky2004 - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Bright yellow slots and retention brackets and CMOS Reloaded hmmm.... Just like the DFI's...I wonder if DFI lent a hand on the design.
xsilver - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
quote: "The only other place that we have seen CMOS reloaded is DFI."abit also has a "reloaded" cmos feature
but then again -- AT is pro dfi right ;)
JarredWalton - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
Sure, we're "pro DFI" - because DFI is making some very impressive boards. We're basically pro-enthusiast. :pI'm a little curious about the "CMOS Reloaded", though, as I would have that the name was trademarked.
xsilver - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
abit dont call it cmos reloaded probably because it is trademarkedthey call it uguru -- but it performs pretty much the same i think
eg. profiles in bios -- even if you reset the bios, you can load from a number of profiles that have been saved
abit also has the guru software which can load a different set of profiles (on the fly overclocking) while in windows --- not sure if dfi /others have that
MattH - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
The big question for me is whether the 6100/6150 will run Aero Glass.Hopefully there will be some boards out there with the full range of I/O options, including DVI, SPDIF, and 1394a. Put good overclocking options on one of those puppies, keep the price under $90, and it would be a killer board for anyone other than the SLI nuts.
Rza79 - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
On which frequency is the RS480 GPU running?Because on the MSI RS480 board you can set the mhz from 200Mhz up to 350Mhz.
On the MSI it is set to 200Mhz by default. So this is an important factor.
Also, it would be nice to see how the Geforce 6100 stacks up against a full fledged RS480 board like the Gigabyte K8A480M-9 with on board 32MB framebuffer.
The Gigabyte K8S760M also has on board framebuffer.
eRacer - Sunday, September 25, 2005 - link
Looks like http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/c51-firstlook-test.htm">this HKEPC review uses an ATI chipset with the 32MB dedicated graphics memory. The ATI board (presumably with 32MB memory) is quite a bit faster than the 6100 chipset in the 3D benchmarks tested.Vol2005 - Monday, September 26, 2005 - link
it was a R482 based moboWesley Fink - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
The ATI RS480 GPU clock is 300MHz.