Originally posted by: frangus
What exactly is the "4 second delay shutdown"? Is it the auto shutdown when you click "Shutdown" without pressing the power button?
This is where you have the dual function power button - press and release for suspend/hibernate, and press-hold for 4 seconds for power off.
Baiscally with the A0 stepping and Gigabyte's BIOS workaround, you lose power management functions. It does not seem to be a big loss for some people, but one should keep it in mind when purchasing an A0 stepping board such as the early Gigabyte ones.
Originally posted by: ArborBarber
So, from that information, which mobo in the SiS 655 offerings performed best? Also, how did the E7205 perform? Tit for Tat?
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Did DDR 400 make any difference? As in Corsair XMS 3202v1.1? I'll be using 512Mb-3200C2(2 sticks) in my configuration...any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
The Gigabyte 8SQ800 Ultra that they tested and the Asus P4SDX performed virtually identically - any difference could easily be attributed to the higher FSB the Asus was clocked at - 135MHz FSB whereas the Gigabyte was at 133MHz. For example, their
3D Mark 2001 results show the boards being neck and neck as far as performance goes.
Other benchmarks favour the Asus slightly, but again, I believe this is down to BIOS settings and the FSB advantage of the Asus.
As you can also see from the graphs, the SiS655 boards outperformed E7205 slightly, but the difference was not great. Of course, SiS655 boards are much cheaper, and should arrive in greater numbers than E7205 boards have thus far.
Unfortunately, they did not do any benchmarks, except for Sandra, at DDR400:
Bref, nous utiliserons le mode "par défaut" pour la suite de ces tests, c'est a dire le mode 128 bits (deux modules identiques) avec des modules DDR333.
They only did tests at the default setting of DDR333. However, I would except overclocking to be severely limited if you go with the 3:4 FSB:Memory ratio. Anything over ~150MHz FSB, I would expect the 4:5 ratio to cope better, especially with those low latency sticks you have . The boards seem to top out at ~165MHz FSB with the 4:5 ratio, ~180MHz FSB 1:1, and ~150MHz FSB 3:4.
I've just noticed that Evan's P4SDX review is on the front page now, so there's more data for us to sift through