AMD Athlon64 PCIe Chipset Shootout - nForce4 SLI, nForce4 Ultra, VIA K8T890, ATI Radeon XPress 200

Today at GamePC, we’ll be comparing the four main Athlon64 chipsets on the market with PCI Express support, along with looking at the boards which run them. We have motherboards based on nVidia’s nForce4 Ultra and nForce4 SLI, along with new boards based on ATI’s Radeon XPress 200 and VIA’s K8T890 chipsets. Which platform is the best solution for running your new Athlon64 processor? Let’s take a closer look.

…Each of the four chipsets we’ve looked at has their own set of positives and negatives, but after our time with each individual board and chipset, we can certainly say that the nForce4 Ultra board from MSI is our favorite of the bunch. We say this as the nForce4 Ultra has a terrific feature set, performs great in all of our benchmarks (including disk and peripheral performance), and was by and large the most stable of the four boards. Even better, nForce4 Ultra boards are priced right on par with VIA K8T890 boards, while performing better and sporting a better feature set.

Four Choices Compared : AMD Athlon64 PCIe Chipset Shootout
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