FIRST LOOK: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Performance

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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. :p
  
  I'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 trademarked
  they 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 mobo

• Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link

  The ATI RS480 GPU clock is 300MHz.