Nforce4 mobo vs Uli1695

[phillyman36]

What are or are there any differences between an Asrocks dual stat 2 and a board based on nforce 4 like the Asus A8N5X. What are the benefits from choosing one over the other? Does one network connection run faster, does one communicate to other devices slightly faster? Would a pc equiped with the same hardware run slightly faster ie video encoding (non gaming performance) and if so why?

 

[Peter]

With the AMD64 architecture having the RAM controller on the CPU not the chipset, there are no differences in performance of purely CPU-bound tasks.

The chipset "war" is not one on AMD64. It's all about features - choose whatever fits your needs best. You'll find much more differences in good or bad execution from board to board than from one chipset to the next.

 

[furballi]

And don't pay too much $ for brand name. My $40 ECS board is very stable at 270MHz FSB. It is also stable at 280MHz with more Vcore.

 

[phillyman36]

Im going to get a new video card switching from my agp 6800 to either a pci express 6800 or 7600gt. My current mobo is an Asrocks dual sata2 I was thinking about getting the asus A8N5X (hoping it would perform a little better) but i wanted a mobo with header for my 3 case fans(want to use the power for the fans from the mobo rather than directly to the power supply dual sata doesnt had 3 extra fan headers where the asus does i wanted to clean up the wiring in my case)