nForce 4 SLI Motherboard Round-Up

Name: nForce 4 SLI Motherboard Round-Up - Page 15
Brand: nForce

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 06:00 PM EDT

PC World Magazine's WorldBench 5.0 is a new breed of Business and Professional application benchmark, that we're looking to with promise here on HotHardware. WorldBench 5.0 consists of a number of performance modules that each utilize one, or a group, of popular applications to gauge performance. Below we have the results from WB 5's Photoshop 7 and Office XP modules, recorded in seconds. Lower times indicate better performance.

PC World's World Bench 5.0: Photoshop 7 & Office XP Modules

More Real-World Application Performance

The DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR continued its winning ways in both of the WorldBench 5 performance modules we ran. In the Photoshop 7 test the LANParty NF4 SLI-DR was 2 seconds faster than the Gigabyte board and 5 seconds faster than the MSI board. The Office XP graphs looks very much the same, with the DFI board finishing the test 3 seconds faster than the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI and a full 10 seconds faster then the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI.

Content Creation Winstone 2004

Real-World Application Performance

For this next batch of results, we used Veritest's demanding Content Creation Winstone 2004 suite. Before running this test, we patched the program to its latest version, shut-down any unnecessary background processes, and defragged the hard drive. The Veritest Content Creation Winstone 2004 test utilizes the following applications in its benchmark, for more information see this page:

Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
Adobe Premiere 6.50
Macromedia Director MX 9.0
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f

In contrast to the WorldBench 5.0 results, the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI surged slightly ahead here, and outpaced both the DFI and Gigabyte boards in the Content Creation 2004 benchmark. With it's score of 37.4, however, the MSI board was still less than 1% faster than either of the other NF4 powered boards in this test.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com