FIRST LOOK - nForce4: Gigabyte K8NXP-9
by Wesley Fink on November 12, 2004 8:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Performance Tests (Continued)
DirectX 8 & OpenGL Gaming
The pattern continues on DX8 and Open GL, with the K8NXP-9 topping the charts in every game benchmark. This is what we would expect in shipping boards compared to the Reference boards on which they are based. More often than not, however, the Reference Board retains the performance lead. Gigabyte did a very good job of tweaking the performance of this nForce4 board.
General Performance
Intel normally tops the PCMark 2004 benchmarks, as they do in Sysmark, which is also produced by Future Mark. This is one of the few remaining benchmarks where Intel is the usual winner. This is likely the result of code optimizations for Intel features, and even this advantage may change when the Rev. E Athlon 64 chips appear with SSE3 code. The Gigabyte is still a bit better in performance than the nForce4 Reference board.
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Jeff7181 - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
"Gigabyte LAN?" Shouldn't that say "Gigabit LAN?" Or is that their proprietary name for the onboard LAN they use on their boards?Wesley Fink - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
#2 and #5 - Pricing has not been announced. My guess based on past Gigabyte positioning would be around $200-$230 for the top model, but that is just a guess. Gigabyte will also likely have lower featured versions of the same board at lower prices#6 - Full performance comparisons of nForce3 Ultra and nForce4 were run at nF4 launch at http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?... Performance of nF3 and nF4 is basically the same - the only real difference is PCIe instead of AGP.
flexy - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
thanks wesley !!That 1gig HT works is GREAT news :!
And my other only question left...any idea how it looks with big HSFs, especially the ThermalRight XP-120 ???
Aquila76 - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
What about a performance test against the 'Old Guard' s939 nForce3 Ultra? Or will that be in the next s939 MoBo roundup?tart666 - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
pricing?Wesley Fink - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
#3 - ALL becnchmarks were run with 5X or 1000HT enabled.flexy - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
whow...whow..whow...but you didnt answer the most important question, is the 1gig HT (5x multi) still broken ? What board revision was this ?
Gnoad - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
Finally a s939 board that makes me pleased.LeadFrog - Friday, November 12, 2004 - link
Nice board. What will be the price?