Intel Motherboards: Can a Diamond beat a Royal Flush?
by Gary Key on September 23, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Overclocking Performance
The overclocking performance graphs have been added to the standard benchmark test suite and should allow for a better comparison on the overclocking capabilities of tested boards. For more details on the specific overclocking abilities of these boards, please refer to the Overclocking and Memory Stress Test section in the Basic Features section.
We believe that the MSI board would have made a better showing if the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset fully supported the Intel Pentium D processor series. It was very disappointing to see the MSI board shut off the second core when the CPU multiplier was changed. We sent our test findings to both MSI and NVIDIA for resolution. NVIDIA responded and stated this issue is a known limitation in the current chipset and will be fixed in future product releases.
The overclocking performance graphs have been added to the standard benchmark test suite and should allow for a better comparison on the overclocking capabilities of tested boards. For more details on the specific overclocking abilities of these boards, please refer to the Overclocking and Memory Stress Test section in the Basic Features section.
We believe that the MSI board would have made a better showing if the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset fully supported the Intel Pentium D processor series. It was very disappointing to see the MSI board shut off the second core when the CPU multiplier was changed. We sent our test findings to both MSI and NVIDIA for resolution. NVIDIA responded and stated this issue is a known limitation in the current chipset and will be fixed in future product releases.
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smn198 - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Welcome Gary. Look forward to seeing more from you.Gary Key - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
smn198,Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this article, working with Wes, and having the opportunity to share my experiences with the great members and visitors here at AnandTech. I certainly hope you will be seeing more from me. ;-)
Sincerely,
Gary Key
Evan Lieb - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Welcome Gary, and have fun!Ecmaster76 - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
Looks like it went up early.Good read though. At first I was like "Holy $#!+" when I saw the gaming benchmarks, but then they mentioned about the Gigabyte BIOS being effed up.
cryptonomicon - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
DRAM Voltage Auto, 1.80V to 2.3V in 0.1V incrementsuh.. but isnt ram like 2.5-2.8v?
Pete84 - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
DDR2 runs at much lower vdimm than DDR.cryptonomicon - Friday, September 23, 2005 - link
ah yes of course..so much for active cooling then
BlvdKing - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
I can't believe the Nforce 4 for AMD supports dual core but the Intel edition only has limited support and no support for the 820.coomar - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - link
no a diamond can't beat a royal flush