Elite PC Titan FX: Setting New Standards in Gaming

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• rupe120 - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  So no dual Opteron test?

• Nighteye2 - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  About the not working well with 4 sticks of RAM: maybe there are only 2 banks for each processor, given that each processor has it's own memory controller?
  

• MS - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  Wes,
  
  ok, I would need to check which version I am using .... D'UH, here it is: 3.43 from June 20 (release date). I guess I need oto check with nVidia and see whether there are newer drivers that increase performance :-)
  
  Thanks!!
  
  (gotto run a few errands now, be back later)

• Wesley Fink - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  Michael,
  
  We don't generally use nVidia's IDE drivers either, but we do use the chipset driver set. The nForce unified drivers released just a few weeks ago appear to improve performance quite a bit on the nF3 compared to the earlier unified driver.

• MS - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  Wes,
  
  Thanks for clearing that one up, actually I am just using a standard Barracuda SATA -V drive on the SiI controller without the nForce drivers, also, I am getting some 59.8 - 59.9 on the ASUS K8V and the ABIT KV8 MAX3 (VIA chipset)
  
  With respect to the GunMetal benchmark, I am (presumably) using the same system as the one you have and the only thing that makes a difference there is how much eye-candy is turned on or off. --- I don't know either what to say here but GM appears to be more GPU limited than anything else. Which is why I would like to find out about your magic sauce for the FX-51..

• Wesley Fink - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  Michael - The Dell is a 3.2 P4, while the Shuttle AN50R is an nForce3-150 Athlon64. You likely used nVidia's latest drivers, which do improve benchmark performance. We are using them for our upcoming reviews, but the nF3-150 scores were from earlier reviews using the slower earlier drivers. Those are likely the differences between your scores and ours.
  
  As I stated in the review, the Gun Metal 2 scores among FX51 chipsets remain a mystery. We are searching for answers.
  
  

• MS - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  "While Dell just achieved the first Content Creation score to approach 60, the Titan FX scores almost 70 in the same test. The Titan FX score of 67.9 is almost 10 points higher than the best that we have ever seen in this benchmark. That is 10 points better than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 running almost the same components in the Dell Dimension XPS."
  
  Huh???
  
  We are getting over 60 with a standard Shuttle AN50R (single drive) and almost 65 with the FX-51 system, what's wrong here?
  
  Also, I don't quite understand the GunMetal benchmark results of the FX51 system, can you elaborate on those, that is, why is the FX51 system so much faster than anything else? Just curious what it is that I am overlooking here...

• Doop - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 - link

  Well that's good Wesley Fink...AMD said they wouldn't work, you tested and they didn't work.
  
  Sorry for the comment about the article didn't mean to offend, I just usually expect AnandTech to be the most complete.
  
  It just seemed obvious to me to wonder why they would ship a single only CPU in a dual mobo. Glad you made the effort to check. Take care.
  
  

• stncttr908 - Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - link

  Wow, if I were rich and didn't build my own systems, this would be on my desk in a heartbeat.

• rupe120 - Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - link

  So when will the article be redone with dual Opterons? :o)