Review: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI

by David Ross on 14 February 2005, 00:00

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376), AMD (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

Motherboards

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI, nForce4 SLI, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR
ECS KN1 Extreme, nForce4 Ultra, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR
EQS A58XK9-ALF, Radeon Xpress 200P, Socket 939. PCI-E 16x, DDR

Processors

AMD Athlon64 4000+, Socket 939, 1MB L2

Graphics Cards

NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT, PCI-E 16x, 256MB

Memory

1Gb (2 x 512MB) Corsair DDR-I PC-3200 - 2-2-2-5

Hard Disks

1 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor SATA

Software

Windows XP Professional w/ SP2
NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.31
ATI CATALYST IGP driver 4.12
NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime

HEXUS Pifast
Sciencemark 2.0
KribiBench v1.1
LAME 3.92MMX encoding U2's Pop album at 192CBR
Realstorm Raytracing Benchmark
3DMark 2001SE
3DMark03
Painkiller

Notes

We'll be putting the GA-K8NXP-SLI up against two other motherboards in our benchmarking suite, in the form of EQS' Radeon Xpress 200P board, as well as an nForce4 Ultra part in the form of the ECS KN1 Extreme.