Nvidia 780a Chipset Preview
Sisoft Sandra & Everest Results
Published: 9th May 2008 | Source: Nvidia | Price: N/A |
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.
Everest is in many ways similar to Sisoft Sandra. Focusing mainly on Software and Hardware information reporting, Everest also comes with a benchmark utility suitable for testing the read, write and latency performance of the memory subsystem. Each of these benchmarks were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average calculated from the remaining 3.
7-Zip is an open source winzip-style file compression utility that has the ability to compress and decompress many file formats including its own .7z compression scheme. 7-Zip also comes complete with its own benchmarking utility for gauging the compression and decompression speed of the system that it is installed on.
HDTach is a free hard disk benchmarking program from SimpliSoftware. This benchmark is not only capable of producing results on hard disk access times but also CPU usage required during disk access. The "Long bench" was run a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being omitted and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Results and Observations
The small overclock has resulted in an all round average increase in performance which is not surprising. Nonetheless it's always good to see the fruits of your labour and confirming that your system is running faster than previously.
Most Recent Comments
Great little (big) preview mate 
Some of the chipsets with onboard GPU's out now are really worth looking at when you consider HTPC's
Full HD output ftw tbh
Some of the chipsets with onboard GPU's out now are really worth looking at when you consider HTPC's
Full HD output ftw tbh
Cheers m8. Was a bit of a challenge but Jim steered me in the right direction.
I was socked about the onboard VGA actually being able to run games let alone be playable.
.I was socked about the onboard VGA actually being able to run games let alone be playable.
Ooh webbo didnt know you did reviews now.. nice one
Looks like a nice board.
Looks like a nice board.
Yeah and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would tbh. Especially when you get some solid backup from the more experienced reviewers here at OC3D
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Tis a very nice board, I just wish we could have exploited it more....but that comes later.
.Tis a very nice board, I just wish we could have exploited it more....but that comes later
.Well congrats mate, you did very well i shall give it a full read when i return home
i shall give it a full read when i return homenice
good to see asus havent abandoned AMD, and neither has Nvidia, back in the day they made some good boards, like mine, the A8N sli-premium
Asus board
Nforce 4 chipset
AMD processor
tis the shizz
good to see we're building back upto that
amd processors were never really good overclockers anyway, you were lucky if you got 500MHz out of your athlon 64 series....
good to see asus havent abandoned AMD, and neither has Nvidia, back in the day they made some good boards, like mine, the A8N sli-premium
Asus board
Nforce 4 chipset
AMD processor
tis the shizz
good to see we're building back upto that
amd processors were never really good overclockers anyway, you were lucky if you got 500MHz out of your athlon 64 series....
Opty 146 and DFI Ultra-D...../hums Hovis tune
I do hope AMD can get back inline with Intel as the support is evidently still there for enthusiasts with chipsets/motherboards like this.
I do hope AMD can get back inline with Intel as the support is evidently still there for enthusiasts with chipsets/motherboards like this.
yeah, tis looking good
You going to be doing more reviews webbo?
You going to be doing more reviews webbo?
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yeah, tis looking good
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:haha:Lol, i havent been reading as many recently... nice
Did you get my pm kemp?
Did you get my pm kemp?
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nice
good to see asus havent abandoned AMD, and neither has Nvidia, back in the day they made some good boards, like mine, the A8N sli-premium |
This new 780a chip looks packed with features, great (pre)review. The layout of the asus board looks spot on aswell.
Hes the thing about these boards.
1. The Price!
2. Current AMD processors.
Why pay £140+ for a motherboard that uses current AMD processors? When you could spend £140+ on an X48 board and get an Intel processor that is better than current AMDs. Who would buy a £140+ motherboard just for the onboard graphics and hybrid SLI when they would be combined with an AMD processor?
1. The Price!
2. Current AMD processors.
Why pay £140+ for a motherboard that uses current AMD processors? When you could spend £140+ on an X48 board and get an Intel processor that is better than current AMDs. Who would buy a £140+ motherboard just for the onboard graphics and hybrid SLI when they would be combined with an AMD processor?
OEM's getting nice prices but still wanting to sell PC's with decent specced GPU's?
Spot on, cept DFI Lanparty SLI-DR, X2, 3gig DDR500Asus board
Nforce 4 chipset
AMD processor
tis the shizz
Im glad there will be another reiview on this board though. To really put it through its paces you need to test the tri-SLI capability, Quad-SLI, and have a Phenom 9850X4 BE. Also testing hybrid SLI to see how well that works and to see if there really is a dip in performance with it enabled.
For a (not so) little preview i thought this was great. Keep up the good work! And sorry ima bit late. This is the board im looking at getting in the near future so i wanna see the OC3D seal of approval before i decide on heading to Intel. (Which is going to be exspensive for me, QX9650, DDR3, 790i, ect)
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