DirectX 9 Gaming Performance
DirectX 9 games do seem to benefit more from the increased memory speeds available on the Asus P5DW2 Premium and P5ND2-SLI Premium. All of the DirectX 9 games are faster at DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. A typical pattern is seen in UT2004 where the performance increase from 925X/533 to DDR2-800 is 5% to 6%. This is the pattern seen in all the gaming benchmarks, with the 925x boards at DDR2-533 at the bottom of the graphs and 955x/nF4 Intel at DDR2-667/DDR2-800 providing the best performance. The 955x and nForce4-SLI Intel are neck-and-neck in gaming performance at the higher speeds with no clear advantage to either chipset at these speeds.
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HardwareD00d - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
Wow, 3% increase. That falls within a margin of error.HardwareD00d - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
This article did an excellent job of showing why DDR2 is total crap. Until they can tighten up the timings, DDR533==DDR667==DDR800 pretty much.quicksilverXP - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
Hey,What bios was your board running at? I purchased two recently, and both of them don't have the DDR2-800 option. I noticed you have 7 ratios available while mine only has 5, and only up to DDR2-667. My Bios version is 0124 from the POST screen. Can you help me out?
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
"Heatsink" is one word. If you are describing a general "heat sink" (there is a distinction), then you are talking about something else.Furthermore, fans are in fact considered active cooling. Active cooling by definition is any cooling device that can be disabled/enabled at will. Heatsinks are passive; fans, peltiers, etc are not.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A...
Kristopher
Darth Farter - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
well, anyone know where I can find this?what is the msrp for these (dual core) boards, cause those $255/$245 prices on newegg/ZZF are hard to ignore...
fishbits - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
"a fan doesn't actually cool anything, it just pushes air around"Try disabling the fans in your rig and A/C, take temp readings before and after and get back with us. Moving same temp to same temp isn't cooling. Moving cooler air (or water or other) to something that is hotter (chip, compressor, radiator, etc) most definitely actively cools it.
ElFenix - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
heat sink is two wordsfans are not active cooling. air conditioning is active cooling, turning the ceiling fan on in your room is not. a fan doesn't actually cool anything, it just pushes air around.
thanks!
Doughboy - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
My retail package also did not include the WiFi/Tuner and Remote. Still a great board though. :)jonny13 - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
Why the hell is Doom3 listed under DirectX 9 gaming?Someone should tell Carmack that he was actually coding in DirectX 9 and not OpenGL like he thought...
Also, on the third graph of the General Benchmarks, you have the orange color as the Asus P5ND2-SLI instead of the Asus P5WD2 like every other chart. If you are going to use colors for the graphs, at least be consistant.
bob661 - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
#6Hypertransport is an open standard. Neither AMD nor NV owns it.
#10
A64's also use Hypertransport to connect the processor to the northbridge.