Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe & Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra: SiS 655TX Challenges Intel's Best
by Wesley Fink on December 9, 2003 1:52 PM EST- Posted in
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Media Encoding and Gaming Performance
The Gaming performance of the both SiS655TX-based motherboards equals or exceeds results with the top Intel 875 board. While both the Asus and Gigabyte outperform the 875p, we, again, see the pattern of Gigabyte topping the benchmarks over the Asus 655TX by a very small margin. The Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra at stock seems to be a bit better optimized than the Asus P4S800D-E, but the difference is small. Asus is much admired for their prowess with memory tweaking on their motherboards, and we suspect that future versions of the P4S800D-E BIOS will further improve performance. Both the Asus and Gigabyte win virtually every gaming benchmark.
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bigtoe33 - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
#1The board actually supports 128bit or dual 64bit mode from what i remember looking at the bios.
dvinnen - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
errrr, #2, lay off the weed.valnar - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
Everybody has to remember that SiS is only marginally better than VIA in compatibility, and several degrees less than any Intel modern chipset..
This makes SiS an excellent option for AMD based motherboards, but why on Earth would you pair an Intel processor with anything other than an Intel chipset? The whole point of paying the $$ for an Intel CPU is the benefit of getting to use their chipset. Works with everything, always.
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That's worth the extra $20.
FishTankX - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
Did I miss something? IN the conclusion it said it packs dual channel 128 bit DDR?