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 this board, please refer to the Overclocking and Memory Stress Test section in the Basic Features section.

Overclocking

Overclocking

The front side bus overclocking results were impressive for the Gigabyte 8N SLI Quad compared to the other nForce 4 SLI platforms and we are confident that the new D9 BIOS will equal or exceed the Gigabyte GA-8I955x. The fsb results of the Abit NI8 are disappointing, but its memory performance actually evens the field in the synthetic benchmarks where it was able to maintain a 1T command rate up to a 770 fsb compared to a 2T command rate for the other nForce 4 boards.

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  • SpaceRanger - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    Yup.. Just compared the two, and they are IDENTICAL Pic's, just doctored to show THG and AT... VERY WEAK!!!!!

    THG:
    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/Arathon/ten...">THG 10 Monitor Image

    AT:
    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/Arathon/ten...">AT 10 Monitor Image
  • johnsonx - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    I doubt one photo or the other was actually doctored, but it is pretty amazing that NOTHING is moved between the two shots... not even the mouse has moved so much as a butt-hair.

    This does lend credence to the theory that Gigabyte prepared the 10-monitor shots themselves.
  • at80eighty - Thursday, October 13, 2005 - link

    quote:

    not even the mouse has moved so much as a butt-hair.


    You got issues with butt hair ? :-)
  • BigLan - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    It looks like this shot was taken at a gigabyte facility, probably in taiwan or china... the blue and red stickers on the monitors look to be chinese characters.
  • vijay333 - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    My guess would be that Gigabyte did this for each one of the sites that it had sent samples to, assuming that they would not be able to set this up themselves (monitors, cards etc). Still, this should have been mentioned in the review itself...
  • Gary Key - Thursday, October 13, 2005 - link

    Good Day,

    I did not want to use the Gigabyte lab shot since THG had already published their version of it. However, since we could not get the revision 2 3D1 cards in time for testing I thought there would be more comments about lack of proof on 10 monitors than issues with the lab shots. I should have noted that in the article.

    I was able to get 8 monitors to work with the video setup I had available. However, I found utilizing four monitors was an ideal situation with the two 7800 GTXs. :-)
  • Bitter - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    Seems a bit....odd, that THG has the exact same picture of the 10 display setup using the exact same displays with associated cables and hardware (and even boxes) in the exact same place...with the sole differance being the background color and logo. Yet THG had their review on 10/4. Yet both sites talk about setting up the system with 10 displays as if they had the gear in house...I smell something rotten here. When you look at the test setups they read almost in stereo. Did either one of these sites actually have the hardware "in the shop" to test any of this out on????
  • johnsonx - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    yeah, as soon as I saw that shot I quickly clicked on "Comments" to see if anyone else had already pointed it out... early bird gets the worm I guess.

    If I had to guess, I would venture that both THG and AT reviewed the hardware at a common location hosted by Gigabyte.

  • phaxmohdem - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    Obviously this board is teh suxors since there is no uber AMD variant. What is this now THG?? Pfft.

    More seriously though, that is kinda cool in its own right. While I wouldn't mind having 4 monitors, 10 seems a bit overkill unless you are an uber l33t day trader or something. I mean wholy crap! Can you imagine the heat that bad boy will put out too? STRONG ass power supply + P4 Dual Core + 4 High End Graphics Cards??? + HDD's + RAM = Heat Stroke in the comfort of your office chair.
  • Chuckles - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - link

    So...
    4x$500 for graphics+~$250 for the board+$1000 for the CPU+$200 for RAM.

    $3500 for a system. Geez.

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