Sound, Feature Chart and Test System Setup
Sound on the nForce4
There has been a lot of rumors on the popular sites recently about SoundStorm and the future of NVIDIA’s sound technologies. I can tell you for sure, coming from the head of the nForce marketing team, that SoundStorm team has been killed at NVIDIA — no more development is going to happen in the near future. NVIDIA said that simply not enough motherboard manufacturers were putting it on their boards and utilizing the technology that was so expensive to continue to develop.
Sorry guys!
Final Feature Chart
This final chart here quickly summarizes all the features that you will see on the nForce4, the nForce4 Ultra and the nForce4 SLI.
System Setup
We are finally one step closer to having consistent test setups across our motherboard platforms. With PCI Express on its way to retail Athlon 64 boards, the field is leveling out once again.
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AMD Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 |
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Motherboards |
NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Reference Board |
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Power Supply |
Antec 480 watt |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR500 |
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Hard Drive |
250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI X800 XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.9 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
I would really like to thank Heather at Kingston for helping me out of a jam with this review, as my usual memory was having a lot of problems with the particular reference board I was first sent. When I called Kingston to ask for help, I had the necessary memory in my hands the next morning at 9am sharp. Thanks!
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Intel Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Intel 560 |
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Motherboards |
Intel 925X Refeence |
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Power Supply |
Antec 480 watt |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR500 |
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Hard Drive |
250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI X800 XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.9 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
The benchmarks used were:
- SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1
- AIDA32
- Cachemem
- Quake III: Arena
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- X2: The Threat
- 3D Mark 2001: SE v330
- 3DMark03
- Far Cry 1.1
- Doom 3
- PC Mark 2002
- PCMark04
- Business Winstone 2004
- Content Creation Winstone 2004
- LAME MP3 Encoding
- XMPEG / DivX Encoding
- WinRAR Compression
- CineBench 2003
- ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
Finally, here is a quick pic of the reference board for those of you interested:
I know that this is an
I know that this is an extremely old topic, but I was wondering if I would be able to get that early NVIDIA SLI Installation Flash Video Animation. I had a copy of it way back in the day on a HDD that failed on me down the road and was hoping to be able to get it again. It’s more for nostalgic purposes only and can’t even seem to find it everywhere online anymore, other than this page posting a mention about it. Please let me know.
Thanks