Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 NF4 Ultra Socket 939 Mainboard Review 2/8
Bluetooth 14 Nov 2004

Benchmarks

Before we go ahead with the results, we would like to highlight some of the differences between the systems compared.

K8NXP-9 is the only PCI-E board we have so far and it is compared to the other K8 S939 platforms which supports only AGP. The PCI-E card used is Gigabyte NVIDIA 6600GT while the others are running with Gigabyte's ATi Radeon 9800XT. Do take note that the amount of ram used on the K8NXP-9 is 2 x 512M in contrast to 2 x 256M on the other K8 boards compared. Included in the comparison is a P4 3.6E. That is included so that we can see how does a K8 platform performs in comparison to an almost equivalent configured P4 Prescott system.

CPU Used : Athlon FX-53.
Memory : 2 x 512MB Corsair CMX512-4000 on GA-K8NXP-9. Other K8 uses 2 x Kingston DDR400 module.

Update : While we are testing the SLI version of the board, we noticed that the FSB auto overclocks while the benchmarks are run. This would probably give a boosted result. There is no switch to turn this feature off at the moment.

As we are using the same FX-53 processor, we wouldn't expect the memory bandwidth to differ that much since the memory controller is within the CPU. The only difference is the ram timing set. For the GA-K8NXP-9, we can only run at CAS 2, 11-3-2. Setting tRCD to 2 makes the system unstable.

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