Athlon 64 pci-express chipset comparo article

[user1234]

This review does not address overclocking, which is of course of utmost importance to enthusiasts, but even without it the nforce4 still wins overall on both performance and features

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/a64-chipsets/index.x?pg=1

 

[imported_Kensai]

nForce 4 wins?

 

[user1234]

you got it

 

[imported_Kensai]

Thought so. No other chip(sets) gives the same performance.

 

[Peter]

Wins? The only results where the differences aren't in the range of measurement noise are the SATA, LAN and USB tests - in which the SiS chipset comes out a drastic first overall.

ULi's latest offering, the M1695+1563 (or 1567) chipset combo, hasn't been part of the review.

 

[user1234]

if you wanna bad mouth the nf4 you're in the wrong place buddy

 

[Peter]

It's more like a forum with technically knowledgeful people is the wrong place for fanboy-ism.

"Advantages" of less than five percent are measurement noise. Learn to live with that.

It's also a well known fact that those "advantages" are often bought by not-really-correct clocking of the boards, exactly to "win" benchmarks catered to audience like you.

 

[user1234]

anyways, if you factor in the overclocking capability of nf4 (100% FSB overclock) then it trounces all the other chipsets

 

[chucky2]

About the only thing the review shows is that for all practical purposes, the 4 different chipsets are so close to each other in peformance as to be unnoticable to the user.

As someone who just built an nForce 4 SLI rig for my brother, I can't help but be impressed with SiS's offering...I'm sure they spent less money than nVidia developing their chipset, have had WAY less fanfare, and are performing in many respects better. Whatever SiS does for disk access everyone else should emulate...

A little less fanboy-ism as Peter put it and a little more analysis of the benchmarks would serve everyone well...certainly nForce4 is a good chipset...but that much better than the others? Not according to the review linked above...

Chuck

 

[justly]

Originally posted by: user1234
anyways, if you factor in the overclocking capability of nf4 (100% FSB overclock) then it trounces all the other chipsets

Don't you mean the overclocking capabilities provided by the motherboard manufactures and not the chipset?

Do you really know the overclocking capability of the SiS or ATi chipset or just the overclocking capabilities of the motherboards that they are used in?

Maybe you could answer this one, how good does the NF4 chipset overclock on a "ECS NFORCE4-A939"?

 

[user1234]

Originally posted by: justly

Originally posted by: user1234
anyways, if you factor in the overclocking capability of nf4 (100% FSB overclock) then it trounces all the other chipsets

Don't you mean the overclocking capabilities provided by the motherboard manufactures and not the chipset?

Do you really know the overclocking capability of the SiS or ATi chipset or just the overclocking capabilities of the motherboards that they are used in?

Maybe you could answer this one, how good does the NF4 chipset overclock on a "ECS NFORCE4-A939"?

no "dude" - overclocking potential (=capability) exists in the chipset, just like in a CPU. The motherboard and BIOS can either take advantage of it and even extend it by providing voltage and clock adjustements, but the core capability is a property of the CPU and chipset. Even if someone tries to build an enthusiast board using the SiS chipset (like the article suggests), it will never be able to match the nforce4 overclocking capability, just like the newcastle A64 core can't match the overclocking potential of Venice core.

 

[wakawaka]

Still liking my xpress board

 

[user1234]

Originally posted by: wakawaka
Still liking my xpress board

but it has no overclocking right ? it's a decent board for stock speed, especially if you want the integrated graphics

 

[wakawaka]

well, im at 2ghz from 1.8. Thats about all it can overclock for now I guess, lol

Using clockgen