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Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4-SLI Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4-SLI Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
If you consider yourself a performance enthusiast and are contemplating purchasing a new system or motherboard in the near future, do yourself a favor and get something that's SLI compatible.
 88% Rating:   
Filed under: Motherboards Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Feb 25 2005   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3

Unreal Tournament 2004

Source: Epic

Unreal Tournament 2004 is the sequel to the highly popular UT2003 and uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology. Unreal Tournament 2004 employs the use of Vertex and Pixel Shaders and it's recommended that you use a DirectX 9 videocard if you plan to play competitively.

UT2004
dm-rankin FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 109.64
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 113.86
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 120.18
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 122.41
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 121.22
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 129.66
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 124.07
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 115.36
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 120.91
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 117.71
as-convoy FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 70.34
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 73.1
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 76.82
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 74.55
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 73.45
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 87.22
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 79.43
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 74.76
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 85.33
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 80.53
ctf-bridgeoffate FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 150.44
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 156.65
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 163.97
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 158.11
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 158.15
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 181.18
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 172.21
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 158.42
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 175.29
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 161.39

The Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI is one of the faster motherboards here in UT2004, finally besting the MSI SLI combo.

Doom 3

Source: id Software

Doom 3 is the most advanced game to date. it takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times with the third run being recorded.

Doom3
LQ 640x480: FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 102.7
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 108.2
MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 108.7
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 110
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 107.4
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 114
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 117.5
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 111.4
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 X800XT) 112.8
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400 6600GT SLI) 109

The last benchmark of the day, Doom 3 shows the power of the GA-K8NXP-SLI. It also shows off the potential of SLI technology too... Not bad at all!

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4-SLI Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  SATA II and SLI
 Pg 3.  nForce4 Technology Loving
 Pg 4.  Disk Improvements
 Pg 5.  More Storage Features
 Pg 6.  Overclocking and BIOS
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004, Super Pi
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05, AquaMark3
 Pg 12.  Benchmarks: Comanche 4, X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 13.  — Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
 Pg 14.  A great motherboard with a bright future!

 
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