SiS 656FX
Last but not least we included another mainstream chipset product for Intel’s LGA 775 Pentium family. 656FX is SiS’ addition to its chipset portfolio for supporting dual core processors, dual DDR2-667, Gigabit Ethernet and four port SATA II (1.5 G/s only). Since this chipset is still very young we had to use the reference boards rather than a final product from a motherboard manufacturer.
Test Setup
| Processor | |
|---|---|
| CPUs | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache)
Intel Pentium 4 660 (3.6 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache) |
| Memory | |
| AMD Platform (DDR400) | 2x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)
Corsair Pro Series CMX512-3200XL (XMS3208 V1.1) (CL2.0-2-2-5-1T @ 200 MHz) |
| Intel Platform (DDR2-667) | 2x 512 MB - DDR2-667 (333 MHz)
Corsair CM2X512A-5400UL (XMS5400 V1.2) (CL3-2-2-8-1T @ 333 MHz) |
| Motherboards | |
| AMD Platforms | DFI NF4 Ultra-D
NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra MSI K8N Neo NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb Winfast 755FXK8AA SiS 755FX Asus A8V VIA K8T800 Pro Albatron K8X890 Pro VIA K8T890 Pro |
| Intel Platforms | Asus P5AD2
Intel 925XE Asus P5GDC-V Intel 915G Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Intel 955X MSI P4N Diamond NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition SiS 656FX |
| System Hardware | |
| Graphics Card (PCIe) | NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (Reference Board)
GPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz) Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz) |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital WD800
80 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 rpm |
| Network | 3Com 3C905B-TX |
| Power Supply | Enermax EG565P-VE, ATX 2.0, 535 W |
| Software | |
| NVIDIA Chipset Drivers | NVIDIA Forceware 6.53 |
| Intel Chipset Driver | Intel Inf 6.3.0.1007 |
| VIA Chipset Driver | Hyperion 4 in 1 Driver 4.56v |
| Processor Driver | AMD CPU Driver 1.1.0.18 |
| Graphics Driver | NVIDIA Forceware 71.84 |
| DirectX | Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| OS | Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600,
Service Pack 2 |
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