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Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 nForce 590 SLI Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 nForce 590 SLI Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Looking at the feature set of nVIDIA's high end nForce 590 SLI chipset is like reading the menu on what a high end workstation system ought to have... except for the uninspiring single IDE channel.
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Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

Office Productivity Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667) 27.4
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800) 29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800) 30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800) 29.6
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 29.9
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 30.4
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 29.8
Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667) 33.8
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800) 42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800) 41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800) 41.2
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 41.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 41.7
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 41.7

In the world of workstation applications, the Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 is not able to separate itself from the other socket AM2 competition. Not that it matters much, in this world the system is mainly limited by the user anyway.

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Motherboard Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667) 36005 42695 16953 4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2 5087 5087
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800) 48799 53396 21837 8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2 6688 6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800) 49031 53788 22011 8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2 6737 6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800) 48963 53456 22014 8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2 6694 6612
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 48879 53535 21910

8224 FPU / 10651 SSE2

6666

6594

Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 49006 53359 22011 8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2 6646 6565
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 48946 53468 22005 8253 FPU / 10712 SSE2 6657 6573

Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

SiSoft Sandra numbers for the Gigabyte BA-M59SLI-S5 are exactly where we'd expect them. Reassuring to see there's nothing out of place here.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits: Seconds Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667) 40
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800) 34
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800) 34
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800) 33
Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 33
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 33
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (NF 590 SLI 200/800) 33

Completing Super Pi in 33 seconds just goes to illustrate how well the Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 handles itself against other nForce 590 SLI motherboards.

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 nForce 590 SLI Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  RoHS and the nForce 590 SLI Chipset
 Pg 3.  Tri-Mode SLI a Reality?
 Pg 4.  Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-G5 Motherboard Highlights Gallery
 Pg 5.  Overclocking the Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5
 Pg 6.  Prelude to Benchmarks / Sysmark 2004
 Pg 7.  — Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: PCMark05, 3DMark05
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: 3DMark06, FarCry
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: Doom 3, Quake 4
 Pg 11.  Conclusions - A Solid Socket AM2 Board from Gigabyte?

 
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