FIRST LOOK: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Performance
by Wesley Fink on September 22, 2005 1:29 PM EST- Posted in
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Basic Features: Biostar TForce 6100-939
It is worth mentioning that Biostar is shipping TForce 6100 micro ATX boards in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 versions. The Socket 754 version, called the TForce 6100, is the same chipset combination and features 2 DIMM slots. The board that we are testing is the TForce 6100-939, obviously supporting Socket 939, and featuring four DIMMs in dual-channel mode. Older A64's, Revision E, and x2 are all supported on this Socket 939 board.
It is worth mentioning that Biostar is shipping TForce 6100 micro ATX boards in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 versions. The Socket 754 version, called the TForce 6100, is the same chipset combination and features 2 DIMM slots. The board that we are testing is the TForce 6100-939, obviously supporting Socket 939, and featuring four DIMMs in dual-channel mode. Older A64's, Revision E, and x2 are all supported on this Socket 939 board.
| Biostar TForce 6100-939 | |
| CPU Interface | Socket 939 Athlon 64 |
| Chipset | NVIDIA GeForce6100 Northbridge - NVIDIA nForce 4100 Southbridge |
| Bus Speeds | 200 to 300MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCIe Speeds | 100 to 125MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCI | Fixed at 33 |
| OnBoard GPU | Auto, Always Enable |
| Frame Buffer (UMA) | 16M, 32M, 64M, 128M, Disabled (64M Default) |
| Core Voltage | Startup, 0.80V to 1.70V in 0.025V increments |
| CPU Clock Multiplier | Startup, 4x-25x in 1X increments |
| HyperTransport Frequency | 1000MHz (1GHz) Supports AMD Cool'n'Quiet |
| HyperTransport Multiplier | Auto, 1X, 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X |
| DRAM Voltage | 2.66V, 2.72V, 2.82V, 2.93V |
| Memory Slots | Four 184-pin DDR DIMM Slots Dual-Channel Configuration Regular Unbuffered Memory to 4GB Total |
| Expansion Slots | 1 PCIe x16 1 PCIe x1 2 PCI Slots |
| Onboard SATA/RAID | 2 SATA II Drives by nForce 410 (RAID 0, 1, JBOD) |
| Onboard IDE/IDE RAID | Two Standard ATA133/100/66 (4 drives) |
| Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 | 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by nF410 No Firewire (Optional) |
| Onboard LAN | 10/100 Ethernet by Realtek 8201 PNY |
| Onboard Audio | AC '97 2.3 6-Channel by Realtek ALC655 |
| BIOS | Phoenix Award |
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Josh7289 - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
ATI is losing...badly.Their last hope is R520 and its variants. I can't wait for "real" benchmarks. I really want to see how these new cards compare to Nvidia's...and at what prices.
ST - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
Can you get power consumption #'s for the system? These new generation of nvidia integrated graphics seems to make an ideal htpc setup. Speaking of which, CPU utilization with video playback (wmv9,h.264, etc.) would be nice too! :)Sunbird - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
"There is even good news here as NVIDIA mirrors ATI in now giving the user the option to run integrated graphics and a PCIe video card at the same time."That makes my heart happy :) What about you guys?
formulav8 - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
Looks like the board comes with about all overclocking features. I was wondering why there was no overclocking done with the board or even the gpu if its even possible?Or are the overclocking pages there and I just overlooked it??
Jason
Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
We will do Overclocking tests on a future 6150/430 board in the future. We did try to use Coolbits to push the 6100 clock of 425 to the 6150's 475. The utility shows the correct GPU clock and a Memory Clock on the shared memory of 0. It appears Coolbits is working, but every frequency setting we tried above 425 failed. Apparently a new GPU OC utility is needed for the integrated graphics.coutch - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
...that the Northbridge and Southbridge are passively cooled. I hope some manufacturers see the potential for these in Home Theatre PCs and create some models with decent TV-out & SPDIF audio output in a small MicroATX format.MercenaryForHire - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
From the article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">NVIDIA Announces AMD Integrated GraphicsYour wish should be in the process of being granted. :)
- M4H
neogodless - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
How do these integrated chips compare to the budget add-in boards? A lot of Dell desktop systems default to the Radeon X300SE, so that is one such card I'd like to see compared.MercenaryForHire - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
Excellent question.Wesley, any chance of spinning some numbers from the http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2427">Xpress 200 vs. GMA 950 article to give some comparasion numbers? I'm sure many people are interested to see where the 6100 stands with respect to the 6200TC lineup.
- M4H
Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
There are useful benchmarks for the GMA950, ATI X200, and 6200 at the same 800x600 resolution in our review at http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2427">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2427. While we agree comparison to the X300 would be useful, we thought you'd appreciate access to the first benchmarks from a retail GeForce 6100 board. We got the board yesterday afternoon and had a review up this morning.We will be doing further testing and comparisons as we receive 6100/6150 boards and systems based on these chipsets.