The testing for Part II is done; my little NCQ sidetrack made this take a lot longer than expected, but the end result is quite positive and I also have some more NCQ benchmarks for the article. I'm going to go ahead and call it a night now so I can be fresh to finish this thing up in the morning...er in the later morning. I'd expect it up by the early afternoon.
With this out of the way I'll have time to focus on a couple of other articles I'm interested in tackling: a Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Performance Guide, NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition vs. Intel's 955X Chipset and a thorough look at Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. I've set some pretty aggressive goals for myself to get those articles complete, honestly I don't believe they're realistic but I'll know more after I get a move on testing.
I'm back to ask for your feedback once more, this time on the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition review. Is there anything in particular you all would like to see? Right now I've got two options - make it a quick nForce4 vs 955X comparison, or make it a longer, more thorough nForce4 vs 955X and nForce4 Intel vs. AMD comparison. I'm currently leaning towards the latter, which unfortunately means it'll take a little bit longer.
It also looks like the board I have won't support dual core without a BIOS update...an update that won't be ready for another week at the earliest, which is a bit of a bummer. NVIDIA says it's up to the motherboard manufacturers to implement dual core support on their nForce4 SLI Intel Edition boards. I don't like grey areas like that, especially when dual core is the only interesting thing to come out of Intel in a very long time, so I'll be doing some digging.
Goodnight folks.
With this out of the way I'll have time to focus on a couple of other articles I'm interested in tackling: a Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Performance Guide, NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition vs. Intel's 955X Chipset and a thorough look at Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. I've set some pretty aggressive goals for myself to get those articles complete, honestly I don't believe they're realistic but I'll know more after I get a move on testing.
I'm back to ask for your feedback once more, this time on the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition review. Is there anything in particular you all would like to see? Right now I've got two options - make it a quick nForce4 vs 955X comparison, or make it a longer, more thorough nForce4 vs 955X and nForce4 Intel vs. AMD comparison. I'm currently leaning towards the latter, which unfortunately means it'll take a little bit longer.
It also looks like the board I have won't support dual core without a BIOS update...an update that won't be ready for another week at the earliest, which is a bit of a bummer. NVIDIA says it's up to the motherboard manufacturers to implement dual core support on their nForce4 SLI Intel Edition boards. I don't like grey areas like that, especially when dual core is the only interesting thing to come out of Intel in a very long time, so I'll be doing some digging.
Goodnight folks.
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Heron Kusanagi - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
We all know how AMD works in SLI setups. And it is a power hungry beast...so want to know how Intel SLI setups can hit PSUs...Also, OT a bit, but is it possible to speak abt AMD vs Intel vs VIA in terms of Dual Core?
GTaudiophile - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
These must be Dark Days for ATI. All this news about nVidia and Intel and SLI, and they have nothing to respond with at this time. But I will try to remain positive and dream of that not-too-distant day when we see two R520 cards in SLI on an ATI motherboard. ATI had better get that out the door as smooth as nVidia has!HammerFan - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
IF someone wishes to see how the AMD SLI performs, just point them to the previous reviews. As for me, I agree with Rand's first post, with the ATi+NVidia and 955x+NF4 comparo.my $.02
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Rand - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
Another thought just occured to me, I'd be curious to see what the power consumption figures look like for a high end Intel SLI configuration.Rand - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
I'm not concerned at all with whether you bother throwing an AMD processors in the NF4 SLI Intel Edition review, we already know exactly how AMD's processors perform and how they compare relative to Intel's, where they lead and fall short isn't going to dramatically change due to nVidia's chipset.I'm more interested in an indepth comparison of the 955X vs. NF4, most particularly I'd really be interested in getting good impression of the memory controller, most reviews thus far on other sites have done little more examinatio then a simple test of memory bandwidth via SiSoft Sandra/PCMark and nothing else.
Some look into IDE/SATA controller implementation would be nice as well.
The only other bit I can add is I'd prefer to see the platforms compared using an ATi graphics card... it's already relatively well known that nVidia's chipsets tend to perform marginally better relative to the competition when using nVidia graphics cards, other reviews have shown that trend to have continued with the NF4 SLI Intel Edition, so I'm more interested in seeing how the NF4 compares without such benefits.
TX8 - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link
IF your working on a Splinter Cell Chaos Theory guide your probably wondering why theres no SM 2.0 path, well below is the reason according to one of the mods over at Beyond3D who is contact with the devs of SC:CTThe games target market is the current generation consoles which are SM 1.1 equivalent so thats the reason why that mode was chosen, the reason there is a SM 3.0 mode in the PC version is because it was a practice run for the next generation consoles which will be powered by SM 3.0 hardware from both ATI & NVIDIA.
SC:CT wont appear on the next gen consoles but the engine that powers it will be used on those next gen consoles for the next SC game in the series this time using the SM 3.0 path/features etc.