Here I would like to point out right away that the higher system bus frequency affected the results quite noticeably. The biggest performance growth was demonstrated by i925XE, which works in synchronous mode at this FSB frequency. All other chipsets we tested here seem to have no optimizations for the synchronous work mode, because their primary goal is to work fast with DDR2-667 SDRAM.

So, NVIDIA nForce4 SLI (Intel Edition) chipset is no longer an indisputable leader here, as i925XE managed to prove a very strong competitor in this work mode. However, we nevertheless have to admit that the new NVIDIA solution didn’t perform any worse than the chipsets from Intel.