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BFG nForce 4 Ultra Motherboard
Test Setup
Hardware:
OS & Drivers:
Synthetic Benchmarks PCMark "05 PCMark 05 attempts to measure real-world performance using synthetic benchmarks rather than retail applications. Each test attempts to isolate one facet of system performance and the test results are combined to give a single score.
PCMark '05
3779
3743
0
PCMarks
4500
The BFG nForce4 Ultra shows a very slight, about 1%, lead on PCMark 05. SiSoft Sandra Sandra is a system information and diagnostic tool that also comes with some synthetic benchmarks for judging system performance. We ran the Memory Bandwidth benchmark to compare RAM performance between our board contenders.
SiSoft Sandra
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5986
4939
0
Score
7000
5916
4940
0
Score
7000
The BFG board finds itself way back behind the ECS KN1 SLI Extreme here. I really can't explain the difference and have rerun the test on both boards with the same result. While the difference in score is significant, unfortunately it doesn't translate into any real-world advantage. RightMark The RightMark 3D Sound CPU Utilization test measures the impact of various audio processing techniques on the system processor. Scores are given as a percentage of CPU utilization with lower being better. RightMark 3D Sound also tests EAX functionality if it is supported by your hardware.
RightMark
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.77
.81
0
% CPU Utilization
20
2.67
3.30
0
% CPU Utilization
20
5.94
6.88
0
% CPU Utilization
20
6.31
7.77
0
% CPU Utilization
20
The BFG nForce4 Ultra requires a few more CPU cycles for audio processing than the ECS. The difference looks rather slight, but every percentage of CPU used for audio processing is a percentage of CPU not going to increasing framerates in your games. IOMeter As the name would suggest, IOMeter is an IO subsystem performance measurement tool. We have created a custom access spec which runs for a 10 minute duration and includes a mix of transfer modes.
IOMeter
36.64
33.81
0
MB/s
50
IOMeter
33
35
0
% CPU
50
As with the Rightmark test, the BFG has to work a little harder for subsystem tasks and we see disk transfer performance suffer a bit compared to the ECS board.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Board Layout Page 3: Bundle and Extras Page 4: Test Setup and Synthetic Benchmarks Page 5: Real-World Benchmarks Page 6: Overclocking Page 7: Conclusion 
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