The Southbridge Battle: nforce 6 MCP vs. ICH7 vs. ICH8

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Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processor Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 ghz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Nforce MCP Motherboard EVGA nforce 680i SLIChipset : Nvidia nforce 680i SLI, BIOS : P20
Intel ICH7 Motherboard MSI 975X Platinum Powerup EditionChipset : Intel 975X, Intel 82801GR (ICH7R), BIOS : V7.2
Intel ICH8 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6Chipset : Intel P965, 82801HR (ICH8), BIOS : F7
Common Hardware
RAM 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 3.0-4-3-9)Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1
Graphics Card HIS Radeon X1900XTX iceq3GPU : ATI X1900XTX (650 mhz)RAM : 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 mhz)
System Hard Drive 1x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Hard Drives for RAID 4x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements Simplisoftware hdtach 3.0.1
I/O-Performance Iometer 2003.05.10File server benchmarkWeb server benchmarkDatabase benchmarkWorkstation benchmark
USB Performance Microsoft Robocopy XP010
Software
ATI Graphics Catalyst Suite 6.11
Intel Chipset s Software Installation Utility 8.1.1.1010
Nvidia nforce 680i Series Forceware 9.53
Directx Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2
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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.