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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-DNVIDIA nForce4 UltraMSI K8N NeoNVIDIA nForce3 250GbWinfast 755FXK8AASiS 755FXAsus A8VVIA K8T800 ProAlbatron K8X890 ProVIA K8T890 Pro |
| Intel Platforms | Asus P5AD2Intel 925XEAsus P5GDC-VIntel 915GGigabyte 8I955X RoyalIntel 955XMSI P4N DiamondNVIDIA nForce4 Intel EditionSiS 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 WD80080 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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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.