FIRST LOOK: ULi M1697 for Athlon 64/x2
by Wesley Fink on December 13, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Test Setup
Tests used OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2, which uses Samsung TCCD chips. Most memory manufacturers now provide several speed bins of Samsung TCCD chips, so the equivalent current OCZ memory would be OCZ PC4800. All memory ran at 2-2-2-7 timing in all benchmarks.
We tested with the NVIDIA 7800GTX to provide the most up-to-date performance results in all gaming benchmarks. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1280x1024x32 unless otherwise noted. 3DMark and Aquamark3 benchmarks use “Standard Score” setup, which is 1024x768 video resolution. Also included for Reference is performance of the ATI X1800XT in all games on the ATI chipset Asus A8R-MVP.
Results for the ULi M1697 Reference Board running the NVIDIA 7800GTX are in red color. Test results for other motherboards running the 7800GTX are in blue. Reference results with the ATI X1800XT are color-coded orange.
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4GHz) Socket 939 |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200* Platinum Rev. 2 *The current equivalent OCZ memory is OCZ PC4800 |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM SATA (8MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | ULi Chipset Driver ATI 5.11 Platform Drivers NVIDIA 6.82 Platform |
| Video Cards: | MSI NVIDIA 7800GTX |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce 81.95 Release ATI Catalyst 5.11 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP2 Direct X 9.0c |
| Motherboards: | ULi M1697 Single-Chip Reference Board Asus A8N-VM CSM (NVIDIA 6150/430) Asus A8R-MVP (ATI RD480/ULi1575) Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe DFI LANParty UT RDX200 (ATI RD480) ATI Crossfire AMD Reference Board SiS 756 Reference Board ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695/1567) Sapphire A9RX480 (ATI) Jetway 939GT4-SLI-G (nForce4) ULi AP9567A (M1695/M1567) DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR (nForce4) DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D (nForce4) MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Platinum (nForce4) |
Tests used OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2, which uses Samsung TCCD chips. Most memory manufacturers now provide several speed bins of Samsung TCCD chips, so the equivalent current OCZ memory would be OCZ PC4800. All memory ran at 2-2-2-7 timing in all benchmarks.
We tested with the NVIDIA 7800GTX to provide the most up-to-date performance results in all gaming benchmarks. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1280x1024x32 unless otherwise noted. 3DMark and Aquamark3 benchmarks use “Standard Score” setup, which is 1024x768 video resolution. Also included for Reference is performance of the ATI X1800XT in all games on the ATI chipset Asus A8R-MVP.
Results for the ULi M1697 Reference Board running the NVIDIA 7800GTX are in red color. Test results for other motherboards running the 7800GTX are in blue. Reference results with the ATI X1800XT are color-coded orange.
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Scarceas - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link
I presumed that ULI provided Anandtech with the sample to review... if you think about it, there are some wierd angles on that... A big deal like that isn't hammered out in a couple of days. ULI "brass" knew the sale was coming.It's kind of wierd, IMO, to send out stuff for reviews as you're going under.
I suspect that nVidia will sit on any tech they acquire, and not implement it. I was sorely disappointed that they sat on the GigaPixel technology a few years back, and there was of course more from the 3dfx acquisition that they never implemented.
IRQ Conflict - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
Too bad this chipset is doomed before it even gets implemented LOL!http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_28250.html">LinkPuddleglum - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_28250.html">https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_28250.htmlTorched - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
Bad link on above post. You can read about Nvidia buying out ULi http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28333">hereIRQ Conflict - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
wierd, it was working yesterday? Oh well nVidia's following M$'s lead again. I can still smell the embers of the 3dfx acquasition.Peter - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link
And yet again, we're seeing Anandtech experts (?) evaluate the RAM controller properties of an AMD64 chipset.Hello?
The RAM controller is in the CPU, folks. Time to acknowledge that and skip that step in a chipset review.
Puddleglum - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
Peter, this is what you were referencing:I don't see the words "controller" or "chipset" in there, and yet you say that the article evaluates the RAM controller properties of the chipsets. What he said about the lack of memory voltage adjustments was not referencing the chipset, but the method that Anandtech uses to overclock their boards.How did you come to think that the article mentioned the RAM controller?
Peter - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link
I'm referring to the following statements on page 4:>Memory Stress Testing: Since this is a new chipset, the best setting for tRAS was first determined.
>This means that any setting from 6 to 11 tRAS will work well with this chipset.
>*7T was determined by MemTest86 benchmarks to deliver the widest bandwidth with the ULi M1697 chipset.
For anyone who's looked at the block diagram on page 2, it should be bleeding obvious that the RAM isn't the chipset's business at all.
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link
Uhhhhh... havent used many A64 boards lately? ;) The ability to run low latency timings is very highly regulated by the board and chipset. You cant just drop any stick of ram in any board and get identical timings.The memory controller may be on the chip itself, but this doesnt eliminate the board and chipset from the equation whatsoever.
Peter - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link
AMD64 architecture totally eliminates the chipset from anything that is even remotely to do with the RAM bus. That's the point, and you're not getting it either.