NVIDIA Rushes Into PCI Express With nForce4

Test Setup

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AMD Processors (Socket 939)
200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400) Athlon64 FX-55 (2600 MHz 128/1024 kB)
Memory
AMD Athlon 64AMD Athlon 64 FX(Socket 939) 2 x 512 MB - DDR400Corsair CMX512-3500C2 XMS3502 V1.1Timing : CL 2.0-2-2-5Voltage : 2.7 V
AMD-Motherboards
VIA K8T800 (Socket 939) ASUS A8V, Rev. 1.02BIOS : 1006 (06/17/2004)
NIDIA nForce 4 Ultra (Socket 939) GigabyteBIOS : M07
Common Hardware
Sound Card Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space96.00 kHz sample rate
Graphics CardAGP Gigabyte GV-N68T256DGPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Graphics CardPCIE NVIDIA 6800 GT Reference CardGPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Hard Drive (AMD System) Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus (Bios : 1.00.0.37)2 x SATA Maxtor 7B250S00 (Raid 0)250 GB / 16 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
DVD/CD-ROM MSI MS-8216D 16x DVD
Software
Intel Chipset V 6.0.1.1002
NVIDIA nForce NVIDIA V5.10
NVIDIA Graphics AGP and PCIE Detonator 61.77
VIA Chipset VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 V4.53
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP Professional, Build 5.10.2600 Service Pack 2
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

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.