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NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition

Date: 2005-4-6

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System setup and notes

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NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition

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Test Platforms

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Intel Pentium 4 660 System 925XE NVIDIA nForce4 SLI System
Processor(s) Intel Pentium 4 660 - 3.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 660 - 3.6GHz/ AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 - 2.4GHz
Mainboard NVIDIA reference nForce4 SLI I.E EPoX 5LWA+ 925XE ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Memory 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair DDR2-667 @ DDR667 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair DDR2-667 @ DDR667 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200
Memory timings 4-4-4-12 4-4-4-12 2-2-2-5 1T
Graphics Card 2x GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E -ForceWare 71.84 for 3D tests ATI RADEON X850 XT PE - PEG16X - CATALYST 5.3 for 2D tests 2x GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E -ForceWare 71.84 for 3D tests
Disk Drive 160GB WD IDE
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2
Mainboard Software nForce4 7.02 platform driver Intel INF Update Utility 6.3.0.1007 nForce4 7.02 platform driver


Benchmark Software

Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
CINEBENCH 2003
MP3 encoding using Intel compiler and LAME 3.97a
PicCOLOR 32-bit v4.0
Kribibench v1.1.9
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1 media encoding
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark05 b1.2.0
AquaMark 3

Notes



We're looking at performance from 2 viewpoints here. Firstly, how does the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition compare with an Intel 925XE chipset-based board with an identical processor, and against an AMD FX-53 running on an nForce4 SLI S939 board?. All three systems were run through our 2D tests with a single ATI Radeon X850 XT PE PCI-Express card in situ. The second question, and perhaps more fundamental to gamers, is how does the nF4 SLI I.E. perform against its AMD counterpart when run with 2 GeForce 6800 GT PCI-Express cards in SLI mode?. If the reference NVIDIA board can match the 925XE's 2D performance and nF4 SLI AMD's 3D performance, we'll have a winner on our hands.

Clock speeds were recorded as follows:

3630.8MHz - Intel Pentium 4 660 - Intel 925XE
3608.5MHz - Intel Pentium 4 660 - nForce4 SLI Intel Edition0
2411.2MHz - AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 - nForce4 SLI AMD Edition

Expect Intel's 925XE, ceteris paribus, to have a small led in most benchmarks. It's clocked just a touch higher than NVIDIA's reference board. No problems to report during installation or testing.






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