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Just thought i would let you guys know, well if you are interested anyhow!
I have just rebuilt my machine and went for a Sapphire RD580 Advantage board. Unfortunately due to the poor overclockability of the board i managed to get a Asus A8N SLI Premium for a nice cheap price. But before i stripped out the RD580 Chipset i did a 3D Mark benchie and found the following...
Common components:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ Venice
1gb (2x512Mb Sticks Of Geil Ultra DDR500)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800XT 256Mb
2xMaxtor 160Gb HDD in RAID0 Stripe
Hiper 580w PSU
All running at stock
Sapphire RD580 Advantage Motherboard
3D Mark 2005 - 8198
3D Mark 2006 - 3675
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
3D Mark 2005 - 8187
3D Mark 2006 - 3704
As you can see its swings and roundabouts really... Neither chipset has a clear Advantage There really is nothing in it...
I have just rebuilt my machine and went for a Sapphire RD580 Advantage board. Unfortunately due to the poor overclockability of the board i managed to get a Asus A8N SLI Premium for a nice cheap price. But before i stripped out the RD580 Chipset i did a 3D Mark benchie and found the following...
Common components:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ Venice
1gb (2x512Mb Sticks Of Geil Ultra DDR500)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800XT 256Mb
2xMaxtor 160Gb HDD in RAID0 Stripe
Hiper 580w PSU
All running at stock
Sapphire RD580 Advantage Motherboard
3D Mark 2005 - 8198
3D Mark 2006 - 3675
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
3D Mark 2005 - 8187
3D Mark 2006 - 3704
As you can see its swings and roundabouts really... Neither chipset has a clear Advantage There really is nothing in it...