Tom's Hardware > All Reviews > Components > Motherboards > Is nForce 650 the Mainstream Master?

Test Setup

6:53 AM - March 19, 2007 by Patrick Schmid

System Hardware
Socket 775	Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard	MSI P6N SLI Platinum Chipset : Nvidia nForce 650i SLI, BIOS : 2007/02/01
Common Hardware
RAM	2x 1024 MB DDR2-8000 (CL 3.0-4-3-9) Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1
Graphics Card	HIS X1900XTX IceQ3 GPU : ATI Radeon X1900XTX (650 MHz)
RAM : 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz)
Hard Drive I (read)	1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150 Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Hard Drive II (write)	1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150 Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM	Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
ATI Graphics	Catalyst Suite 6.11
Nvidia Chipset	nForce 650i 8.43
DirectX	Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS	Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2

Benchmarks And Settings

Benchmarks and Settings
3D-Games
Call Of Duty 2	Version : 1.3 Retail Video Mode : 1280x960 Anti Aliasing : 4x Graphics Card : medium Timedemo demo2
Quake 4	Version : 1.2 (Dual-Core Patch) Video Mode : 1280x1024 Video Quality : Ultra THG Timedemo waste.map timedemo demo8.demo 1 (1 = load textures)
Video
TMPEG 3.0 Express	Version : 3.0.4.24 (no Audio) 182 MB VOB MPEG2-source (704x576) 16:9
DivX 6.4	Version : 6.4 (4 Logical CPUs) Profile : High Definition Profile Multipass, 3000 kbit/s Encoding mode : Insane Quality
XviD 1.2.0	Version : 1.2.0 SMP Beta Encoding type : Twopass - Single pass Profile @ Level : DXN HT PAL Target size (kbytes) : 570000
MainConcept H.264 Encoder v2	Version : 2.1 2:19 min MPEG2-source 1920x1080 to H.264 Profile : High Audio : AAC Stream : Program
Audio
Lame MP3	Version 3.97 Beta 2 (11-29-2005) Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to mp3 160 kbps
OGG	Version 1.1.2 (Intel P4 MOD) Version 1.1.2 (Intel AMD MOD) Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 74 min wave to ogg Quality : 5
Applications
Winrar	Version 3.61 (Multi-Core) (303 MB, 47 Files, 2 Folders) Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB
Autodesk 3D Studio Max	Version : 8.0 Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig" rendering HTDV 1920x1080
Adobe Photoshop CS 2	Version : 9.0.1 VT-Runtime Script Rendering from 5 Pictures (66 MB, 7 Filters)
Cinebench	Version 9.5 64 Bit nCPU, 1 CPU
Synthetic
PCMark05 Pro	Version : 1.1.0 CPU and Memory Tests Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646 Windows Media Encoder 9.00.00.2980
SiSoftware Sandra 2007	Version 2007.5.11.17 CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic / MultiMedia Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark Memory Lateny Test = ns
Storage Benchmarks
Performance Measurements	SimpliSoftware HDTach 3.0.1
I/O-Performance	IOMeter 2003.05.10 Fileserver-Benchmark Webserver-Benchmark Database-Benchmark Workstation-Benchmark
USB Performance	Microsoft Robocopy XP010
Other
Windows Media Player 10	Version : 10.00.00.36.46