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Nice review Geoff. Interesting vid cards.
Lack of Dual Gig-E would be a big omission for me to swallow; in fact, right now I am posting from a virtual machine that is using a bridged eth card and I really don't have enough slots in my mobo to dedicate an eth card to as many virtual machines as I plan on running. And also, while I like high end boards, I also like integrated graphics. What about AMD's Overdrive - does that factor into the value proposition at all? With Lynnfield just around the corner, buying right now would have to be due to a genuine /need/. Last point - the x4-955 is a hard sell with the Q9550 selling for $230. Yeah, 775 is dead, but the future is far from certain - is there really going to be something from AMD worth upgrading to from an X4-955? Something that would compel me to spend some green just to have the pleasure of having an x4-955 sitting in my desk drawer? I wouldn't swap out a CPU just for a few percentage points, or even necessarily more cores. If I was that type of consumer, I'd have already replaced my current CPU.  |
#40, Well said, sir.
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You recently reviewed the MSI 790FX-GD70 which is going for ~$170 on line right now. It should have been in this lineup. Maybe you had to send it back to the vendor? I bought that board and the AMD 955 Black Edition. I have 8GB as 4 x 2GB sticks of OCZ Platinum DDR3 2000 PC3(16000) running at DDR3 1600 at 1.61V in XP-64 and its a sweet system. Have not even tried overclocking the CPU but the memory subsystem is pretty good to handle 4 sticks at DDR3 1600.
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I just built a server based on socket AM3. I used the triple core 720, 8gb of ddr3 1300, a pair of raptors in raid1 for the system/program, and a pair of g.skill falcons in raid1 for the data drives.
The whole project cost under $1400, not counting $6k for the microsoft licenses. Since the license is per cpu, I wanted as many cores/performance as I could get. My upgrade option is to drop in a 955, and get a bit more ghz, as well as one more core. The majority of server boards are all still ddr2/667 or /800, which no longer is impressive today. I opted to use a desktop board instead because of the memory i/o speed. I'd like to have more than 8gb of ram, but still waiting on the larger 4gb sticks, which are due anytime. |
#6, $relevance = 0;
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Is it true? Are the SB750 SATA/AHCI problems fixed in the Vista drivers? I wish the article addressed that question more directly.
> In the past, we've only seen decent AHCI performance > from AMD south bridge chips combined with > unreasonably high CPU utilization. That isn't the case > here, though. To me, looking at the graphs, SB750 is performing well with Vista. Just don't install AMD's own SATA/AHCI drivers. |
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One thing I don't quite agree with is that no integrated graphics on an otherwise higher-end mobo is a waste. While I understand what you're saying there are very valid uses, some people have uses for lots of CPU power but don't need much more than basic graphics so a good mobo with integrated graphics would be perfect for them.
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I should note that on the spec sheet you have the M4A79T Deluxe listed as being compatible with AM2 processors, which it is not.
Also, minor nitpick, but I don't think the M4N82 should really be referred to as an AM3 board, since it's DDR2 and all. Aren't those boards AM2+? AMD's relatively poor peripheral performance is disappointing. I wonder if there's some issue with your external HDD enclosure and the SB750's USB controller. 15/MB/sec doesn't really cut it. |
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I think you're mistaken in your calculations of Crossfire vs. SLI scaling in Call of Duty. The Crossfire set-up is scaling over 2X which is more than the SLI set-up.
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loophole |
I think you've got the memory types and timings swapped around for the two boards on page 6, as the M4A79T is the DDR3 board but it's listed as using the DDR2 memory while the M4N82 is listed as using the DDR3 memory.
No big deal as it's easy enough to figure out what's really going on, but I figured I should point it out anyway. Other than that, nice article Geoff! EDIT: Excellent - fixed now. |
http://freenet-homepage.de/techstuff/As8200/K10N78-1394.htm#Festpla...
I wrote 1 GB Blocks with the blocksize on the right from Seagate to WD hdd. (XP/Vista/7)
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