VIA K8T800 PRO: PCI/AGP Lock and 1000 HyperTransport for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on May 6, 2004 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Performance Test Configuration
To provide the best comparison to other Socket 940 boards we have tested, all benchmarks were run with an FX51 instead of the faster FX53 that was recently introduced. Memory timings were also kept as close as possible to those we used in the Socket 940 roundup.| Performance Test Configuration - 3.2C | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon 64 FX51 (2.2GHz) AMD Athlon 3400+ (2.2GHz) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3500 Registered ECC 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 ECC Registered |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | VIA Hyperion 4.51 (12-02-2003) |
| Video Card(s): | ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X) |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.4 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | VIA K8T800 PRO Reference Board Asus SK8N (nVidia nForce3-150 PRO) Gigabyte K8NNXP-940 (nVidia nF3-150 PRO) Asus SK8V (VIA K8T800) MSI K8T Master 2 (VIA K8T800) MSI K8N Neo (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) nVidia nForce3-250 Reference Board |
In most benchmarks, comparisons were only made among Socket 940 motherboards running an Athlon 64 FX51. However, some results for newer benchmarks were not available on the FX51. In that case, we published benchmarks on the 3400+, which also runs at 2.2GHz. We have found only minor differences in Athlon 64 and FX chips when they are running at the same frequency.
All performance tests were run with the ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card with AGP Aperture set to 128MB with Fast Write enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32 unless otherwise noted.
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bigtoe33 - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
Come on guys its the first look at a reference board.Reviews will come with all boards compared etc.The question you should ask is why abit hasn't implemented the lock on the new pro board they just released?
ceefka - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
#2 quite rightQuestion: Will Firewire suffer from the fact that it is not on-board? Will anything else suffer from the fact that Firewire will then have to be supported with an additional chip?
To stretch the importance of Firewire for the home-user. I believe that a lot of people own MiniDV camera's in and a year or so most analog videocams will be replaced with digital cams. Most of them work best with Firewire. I haven't seen any models that work explicitly with USB 2.0 so far.
Cygni - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
There arent any Socket 940 boards based on the 250 chipset in the open market right now.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
im disappointed that it wasnt compared against nf3-250 boards.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
weeeeee