nForce4 SLI Roundup: Painful and Rewarding

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• TigerFlash - Monday, July 4, 2005 - link

  I thought this link would be rather important to see:
  
  http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=82427.0

• TigerFlash - Monday, July 4, 2005 - link

• NightCrawler - Thursday, May 5, 2005 - link

  You make a big deal out of the fact that the DFI can hit 318 but they both do the same 2.8 ghz, users won't see much difference, if any.
  
  Asus: Maximum OC:
  (Standard Ratio) 234x12 (Auto HT, 2-3-3-7, 1T, 2.8V)
  2808MHz (+17%)
  Maximum FSB:
  (Lower Ratio) 255x11 (2805MHz) (4X HT, 2.5-3-3-7, 2.7V)
  (1:1 Memory, 1T, 2 DIMMs in DC mode)
  (+28% Bus Overclock)
  
  DFI: Maximum OC:
  (Standard Ratio) 238x12 (Auto HT, 2-3-2-7, 1T, 2.9V)
  2856MHz (+19%)
  Maximum FSB:
  (Lower Ratio) 318x9 (2862MHz) (Auto HT, 2.5-4-3-7, 2.9V)
  (1:1 Memory, 1T, 2 DIMMs in DC mode)
  (+59% Bus Overclock)
  

• DeanO - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link

  Don't know if anyone's noticed yet, but I just took a trip over to MSI's website, and guess what? Only the SLI mobo has the Creative chip. The Neo4 (i.e. nF4 Ultra chipset) mobo uses the Realtek ALC850. I for one was disappointed...
  That makes for an interesting decision: the SLI board is still cheaper than the Ultra board plus a Creative 24-bit sound card. Hmmm...

• phusg - Friday, March 4, 2005 - link

  New PCI card with C-Media DDL chip: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&a... ge=20&pagenumber=1
  
  Currently only available via ebay apparantly:
  http://search.ebay.com/HDA-Digital-X-Mystique-7-1-...
  
  If it has the same performance as Soundstorm remains to be seen. Reading the thread the EAX support is just as dodgy as it was on Soundstorm.

• ElFenix - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link

  What chipsets did your USB and firewire drives have?
  
  thanks for the great review!

• bjorn44 - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link

  Anyone know how they did the memory benchmark with memtest86 3.2? I can't find any option for testing bandwidth.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Bjorn

• giz02 - Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - link

  Well if it's any consolation, PCSTATS have updated thier site review of the MSI Neo4 Plat SLI (and will probably make two more updates to it)
  - now states 96Khz
  - will modify DICE statement
  - they are indicating that the sil3132 can do raid5, but I'm not sure that it can...
  
  Wow Roomraider, that's quite the system you have there.
  
  

• Roomraider - Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - link

  #82 u r absolutely correct sir. I have the top SB card available(Audigy 4 Pro)& the only way i get DTS or Dolby Digital of any form is SPDIF out Via Coax or Fiber optic cable with settings for (Passthrough) to my Yamaha 7.1 Amp.
  
  
  
  MOBO Gigabyte Ga-K8NXP-SLI
  CPU AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
  Cooler Gigabyte 3D CoolBlue Ultra Gt
  PSU Thermaltake Purepower 650 Watt
  MEMORY 4xCorsair 512Mb 3200XMS PRO Tracer Ram/Dual channel 2-2-2-5
  Video 2xBFG 6800GT OC PCIE W/Serials in order
  HDD 2xWD-74 GB Raptor HDD/Raid(0)configged
  2xMaxtor 300 GB SATA HDD
  OPTICAL 2xPlextor PX716SA-SATA 16xDual Layer+-DVDRW-48xCDR
  CASE Lian-Li P60 W/clear side panel
  MODS 4 Blu 80mm/1 Blu 92mm(roof/exh)& 4 Blu Cold Cathode Lite Strips
  MONITOR Sony SDM-P234 23" 1920x1200 native
  SOUND Creative Audigy-4 Pro,YamahaDSP-A3090 7.1ch amp/Boston Micro90 spks/Bose AM-5 W/Sub
  
  ADD-ON MSI TV@nywhere Personal Cinema FX5200 TV/FM tuner

• Tatunkhamon - Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - link

  I admit this is slightly OT, but as I first got excited about the possible DD-encoding feature on the MSI-mobo and then let down by the obvious lack of it, I was happy to find these news:
  
  http://news.designtechnica.com/article6709.html
  http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000683034067/
  
  I know many of us don't like the DRM/HDCP-features of HDMI, but HDMI certainly is the way to transmit high-definition, multichannel audio *without the need* to compress ie. encode to DD. And live content, such as games, would not probably have the copyprotection flags on, anyway. Of course, getting enough coverage for HDMI in both h/w and s/w will take time, but I bet this is the way it's ment to be played in the near future.
  
  For example, think about combining this with s/w generated mc-audio and Intel HDA. No need for badly implemented codec/DAC in this model. Of this combined with discreete graphics card and the audio generated with the help of vector processing on the card.. I just hope Intel/Nvidia/ATI/whoever would start a strong enough, open standard to compete with EAX. Then Creative would either have to run, fast, or join their forces.
  
  Meanwhile, because there is not much HDMI-support (except for the earlier, non- multichannel-high-def-audio-supported HDMI-standard, for mainly graphics) some solution providing DD-encoding to be sent over standard S/PDIF would still be very, very desired for many of us.
  
  I end this thread-hijacking attempt here and apologize if being OT. Now back to our regular programming... :)
  
  Wbr, Tatu