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DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, October 17, 2005
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra (nVidia nForce4 Ultra)
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
Alpha PAL8150A
2x Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR500 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoPower 480 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
Alpha PAL8150A
2x Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR500 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoPower 480 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Reference System
Chaintech VNF4 Ultra (nVidia nForce4 Ultra)
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
Alpha PAL8150A
2x Corsair Xpert TwinX 3200XL DDR400 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoPower 480 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
Alpha PAL8150A
2x Corsair Xpert TwinX 3200XL DDR400 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoPower 480 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
CPU-Z
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks
that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these were
recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2004.10.9.133
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
Synthetic Conclusion
Sandra and cachemem scores pretty much tell the same story over and over on the Athlon64 platform, given that both systems are using the nForce4 Ultra chipset and were benchmarked using the same processor it is of no surprise to find identical numbers across the board. You may notice a slight drop in Cachemem scores, we can blame that on the slower timings found on the Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory.
