FIRST LOOK - nForce4: Gigabyte K8NXP-9
by Wesley Fink on November 12, 2004 8:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Performance Tests (Continued)
DirectX 8 & OpenGL Gaming
The pattern continues on DX8 and Open GL, with the K8NXP-9 topping the charts in every game benchmark. This is what we would expect in shipping boards compared to the Reference boards on which they are based. More often than not, however, the Reference Board retains the performance lead. Gigabyte did a very good job of tweaking the performance of this nForce4 board.
General Performance
Intel normally tops the PCMark 2004 benchmarks, as they do in Sysmark, which is also produced by Future Mark. This is one of the few remaining benchmarks where Intel is the usual winner. This is likely the result of code optimizations for Intel features, and even this advantage may change when the Rev. E Athlon 64 chips appear with SSE3 code. The Gigabyte is still a bit better in performance than the nForce4 Reference board.
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Alphafox78 - Monday, November 15, 2004 - link
Why isnt there a comparison between this and a similarily configured NF3 board? How can you tell if just swapping the MB and switching to PCIe is going to help if there is no comparison to NF3...?deathwalker - Monday, November 15, 2004 - link
Lonewolf15...buy counting the pins on the pictures provided..it looks like 24 pins.LoneWolf15 - Monday, November 15, 2004 - link
P.S. Wesley, does this board have 20pin ATX +12v P4 power supply connections, or does it use the newer 24pin setup?LoneWolf15 - Monday, November 15, 2004 - link
This is the first Gigabyte board I've ever been interested in, and I have to say, it looks like an awesome board, all features included, with an incredibly clean layout. Can't wait to see what pricing is, and I hope that MSI, ASUS, and Abit rise to the challenge --it looks like the bar has been raised.Electric Mayhem - Monday, November 15, 2004 - link
I remember reading an Nvidia tech spec on their site that the NF4 does support NCQ.jcromano - Sunday, November 14, 2004 - link
I'd like to second #31's question: Will the board support NCQ harddrives? Also, from what I've read on page 2 ("Basic Features"), it sounds like this board will be able to use either AGP or PCie 16x for its graphics card. Is that correct? In the pictures of the board, are the 1x slots the white and green ones near the bottom, and is the 16x slot the black slot just below them? (If so, the 16x slot appears shorter than the 1x slots. Does that make sense?)KaRRiLLioN - Sunday, November 14, 2004 - link
After the fiasco I had with my K8NSNXP NF3 Ultra board, I'm going to pass up Gigabyte on this offering. That issue made that $230 board a piece of junk. My MSI is performing much better.Xspringe2 - Sunday, November 14, 2004 - link
Are there any dual opteron nforce4 based motherboard reviews in the pipeline?Thanks!
noxipoo - Sunday, November 14, 2004 - link
does this board support NCQ hardrives?Decoder - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - link
With nForce 4 AMD has achieved the mobo + cpu superiority over Intel. SLI will be the cream on the top. No wonder Dell has expressed interest in using AMD for workstations , gaming rigs and servers.Kudos to AMD and nVidia.