NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition
Content Creation Winstone & WorldBench 5
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.
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The Veritest Content Creation Winstone 2004 test utilizes the following applications in its benchmark routine, for more information about this test, 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
The NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition performed well in the Content Creation Winstone 2004 benchmark, outpacing the i925XE by a small margin. The Athlon 64 powered system was faster than all of the Intel based systems, but thanks to some fast RAM, the Intel machines were close behind.
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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.
WorldBench 5.0's Photoshop 7 and Office XP SP2 performance modules also had the NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition besting the i925XE based system by a couple of seconds. In both the Photoshop and Office XP SP2 tests, running the system memory at 667MHz gave the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition marginal advantages of 4 and 2 seconds in the respective tests. With NF4's memory clocked down to 533MHz, it was still faster than the i925XE in both tests, but this time by margins of only 2 seconds and 1 second respectively.
