nForce4 Ultra Roundup: Charting the Mainstream
by Wesley Fink on July 5, 2005 10:28 PM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Performance
We have already established in past reviews that AGP and PCIe versions of the same video card running at the same speed perform the same. The only way the much slower performance of the Epox XGP slot can be explained is that the AGP 8X form factor slot is a convenience, and performance is definitely not up to AGP 8X levels. Those with AGP cards who want to bring them along in the PCIe transition will get service from the Biostar NF4UL-A9, but they will be disappointed severely if they are expecting AGP 8X level performance. However, the PCIe performance is up to the levels of PCIe on PCIe only motherboards, being just a bit slower than the competition.
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lsman - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
yet, "As you can see, none of the onboard audio solutions were quite as low in CPU utilization as the Creative SoundBlaster Live! Chip, which is used on the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum."so creative on board is a reference? because you do not test the MSI K8N Neo4 platium.
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
#2 -As we said several times in the roundup, we reviewed the MSI and Asus in the SLI roundup. The SLI and Ultra chipsets are exactly the same chipset with SLI enabled on the SLI chipset. We did not see what new information we could bring you by reviewing the Ultra versions fo the same boards. As you can see in the benchmarks in this roundup the DFI perfoms in Ultra exactly as it did in SLI.
The MSI was an Editor's Choice in the SLI roundup and is a similar good choice as an Ultra board. There have been some issues with the Venice and San Diego overclocking and MSI has finally released a new BIOS to address these problems.
The Asus was not a particularly good overclocker in the SLI roundup, and not an Editors Choice, but it was a decent performer at stock speeds.
Djinni - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
Very good work, but I too would of liked to see the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum in there since thats what I just bought yesterday :PMaxisOne - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link
Nice .. but partially useless considering the Asus A8N-E and MSI offerings are missing from the lineup which is what im looking to compare to the DFI Ultra DChrisSwede - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - link