NVIDIA nForce 500: Biostar and MSI Aim for the Gold
by Gary Key on June 8, 2006 4:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Performance
The overall gaming performance of the Biostar board is impressive when compared to the other NVIDIA AM2 boards although the MSI board certainly makes a strong showing. The lower memory latencies of the nForce4 board allow it to maintain an equal or sometimes better result against the AM2 board. The interesting result in our testing is the performance of the ATI AM2 board with the 7900 GTX in both Half Life 2-Lost Coast and F.E.A.R. with results being significantly better than the NVIDIA boards.
SLI Performance
The performance pattern continues in our SLI benchmarks with the Biostar board slightly outperforming our other nForce 500 systems. The performance of the nForce4 system was very good in the Serious Sam II and Half Life 2: Lost Coast tests while trailing the AM2 boards in the balance of our test. The CrossFire based ATI AM2 board delivers superb results in Serious Sam II and Call of Duty 2 where graphics card performance can make a significant difference.
The overall gaming performance of the Biostar board is impressive when compared to the other NVIDIA AM2 boards although the MSI board certainly makes a strong showing. The lower memory latencies of the nForce4 board allow it to maintain an equal or sometimes better result against the AM2 board. The interesting result in our testing is the performance of the ATI AM2 board with the 7900 GTX in both Half Life 2-Lost Coast and F.E.A.R. with results being significantly better than the NVIDIA boards.
SLI Performance
The performance pattern continues in our SLI benchmarks with the Biostar board slightly outperforming our other nForce 500 systems. The performance of the nForce4 system was very good in the Serious Sam II and Half Life 2: Lost Coast tests while trailing the AM2 boards in the balance of our test. The CrossFire based ATI AM2 board delivers superb results in Serious Sam II and Call of Duty 2 where graphics card performance can make a significant difference.
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Puddleglum - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
First comes AMD, then comes Intel. You must wait. Are you opposed to the 965/975x?Conroe comes out in about a month, so I'm sure you'll be seeing massive amounts of reviews in the coming weeks/days.
Myrandex - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
I don't know if it is just me, but it looks like in the graphical layout of the 570 that it says 16x connection to the first video card than an 8x connection to the second. I think it should have 16x / SLI (8x) or something on it.Jason
Myrandex - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
Also the following needs changed:The Realtek ALC-883 codec offers competitive CPU utilization rates when compared to the Realtek ALC-882 on the Asus board.
I think the Asus needs to be changed to Biostar.
JarredWalton - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
Asus changed to Biostar. As for the nF570 graphic, the X16 is because if you use a single GPU, you can get all 16 lanes, but if you use two GPUs, both will get 8 lanes. Yeah, it could be done better, but that image is direct from NVIDIA.Regards,
Jarred Walton
Editor
AnandTech.com
shortylickens - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
They jusy had to add two more digits, didnt they?Couldnt call it the Nforce 55, 57 and 59. Are they trying to compete on names again? Must need that extra digit I guess.
Before long we'll have Radeon XXXYYYZZZ9700 Thousand Million Pro Uber Leet Haxor and then we'll see GeForce 999 FXZ 88000 Ultra Grand Prix GT XML.
Then someone will get the idea to simplify the naming system and the whole mess starts over.
Visual - Friday, June 9, 2006 - link
Does the XML model also offer XSLT hardware acceleration? That'd rock, explorer is so slow on it...But I think I'll hold up for now till I can get the Turbo-Diesel Injection models.
Schizzlefuzz - Thursday, June 8, 2006 - link
I've only used Biostar for budget builds before, using DFI and Asus for performance builds, but the TForce 590 SLI Deluxe might be added when I start building AM2 systems for customers.