Biostar TF560 A2+: Overclocking NVIDIA's new nForce 560
by Gary Key on August 2, 2007 12:15 AM EST- Posted in
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General System Performance
The PC WorldBench 6.0 test suite developed and provided by PCWorld is designed for determining overall system performance for the home office user. This tool provides results for ten different real world applications that range from Adobe Photoshop to AutoDesk 3ds Max. This benchmark is useful for providing comparative results across a broad array of Graphics, CPU, Hard Disk, and Memory configurations. We chose a subset of this package that represents applications more commonly used in the home environment.
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Since the introduction of the Intel Core 2 Duo architecture, Intel has enjoyed a significant lead in this particular benchmark. The E2160 is 13% faster at stock than the 3800+ and 33% faster when overclocked. Our overclocked AM2 budget processors perform roughly equal to our reference X2 6000+. The BE-2300 has a performance increase of 51% when overclocked while the X2 3800+ improves by 40% and the E2160 ends up 64% faster - almost perfectly linear performance scaling with clock speed.
Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Once again, our overclocked AM2 budget processors perform the same as our reference X2 6000+ while the E2160 leads the grouping, although the margin of victory is much smaller in this test. Like Photoshop, WME tends to favor the Core 2 architecture. The BE-2300 has a performance increase of 32% while the X2 3800+ improves by 28% when overclocked. The E2160 shows a 48% improvement when overclocked, scoring 10% faster than the next closest competitor versus only 3.6% faster at stock speeds.
WinZip 10.0
In our final benchmark that is generally CPU throughput and memory latency sensitive, we see the BE-2300 has a performance increase of 60% while the X2 3800+ improves by 38% when overclocked. The E2160 improves by 50% with overclocking. Based on CPU speed alone, our two budget AM2 processors are once again equal with our X2 6000+. There's nothing surprising there, though the fact that the increased HTT speeds of our budget processors overcame the L2 cache advantage of the 6000+ in our application tests is at least somewhat interesting. The E2160 again takes top honors among the overclocked budget CPUs, scoring 8.4% faster than the others; at stock speed it's roughly the same performance as the 3800+.
In a quick recap of the PC WorldBench results, the three AM2 boards all more or less tie when equipped with the same CPU. There are minor variations, but nothing statistically significant.
The PC WorldBench 6.0 test suite developed and provided by PCWorld is designed for determining overall system performance for the home office user. This tool provides results for ten different real world applications that range from Adobe Photoshop to AutoDesk 3ds Max. This benchmark is useful for providing comparative results across a broad array of Graphics, CPU, Hard Disk, and Memory configurations. We chose a subset of this package that represents applications more commonly used in the home environment.
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Since the introduction of the Intel Core 2 Duo architecture, Intel has enjoyed a significant lead in this particular benchmark. The E2160 is 13% faster at stock than the 3800+ and 33% faster when overclocked. Our overclocked AM2 budget processors perform roughly equal to our reference X2 6000+. The BE-2300 has a performance increase of 51% when overclocked while the X2 3800+ improves by 40% and the E2160 ends up 64% faster - almost perfectly linear performance scaling with clock speed.
Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Once again, our overclocked AM2 budget processors perform the same as our reference X2 6000+ while the E2160 leads the grouping, although the margin of victory is much smaller in this test. Like Photoshop, WME tends to favor the Core 2 architecture. The BE-2300 has a performance increase of 32% while the X2 3800+ improves by 28% when overclocked. The E2160 shows a 48% improvement when overclocked, scoring 10% faster than the next closest competitor versus only 3.6% faster at stock speeds.
WinZip 10.0
In our final benchmark that is generally CPU throughput and memory latency sensitive, we see the BE-2300 has a performance increase of 60% while the X2 3800+ improves by 38% when overclocked. The E2160 improves by 50% with overclocking. Based on CPU speed alone, our two budget AM2 processors are once again equal with our X2 6000+. There's nothing surprising there, though the fact that the increased HTT speeds of our budget processors overcame the L2 cache advantage of the 6000+ in our application tests is at least somewhat interesting. The E2160 again takes top honors among the overclocked budget CPUs, scoring 8.4% faster than the others; at stock speed it's roughly the same performance as the 3800+.
In a quick recap of the PC WorldBench results, the three AM2 boards all more or less tie when equipped with the same CPU. There are minor variations, but nothing statistically significant.
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DeepThought86 - Friday, August 10, 2007 - link
elpresidente2075 is probably a 15-year old who thinks newer is better by definition. It'll be a decade or more before he learns critical thinkingstrikeback03 - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
Plus once PATA is gone maybe we can get more SATA ports. 4 is a bare minimum.takumsawsherman - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
Is that Firewire is still not standard. For the couple of bucks it costs to add it to a board, can we fricking add it already? It should have been standard years ago, and considering how cheaply one can get a card, it can't cost all that much to implement. Meanwhile, there's no apparent rhyme or reason to which systems have it and which don't. I've seen cheap HP's that have it, and expensive ones that don't. It's all over the map.strikeback03 - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
Or just eliminate it entirely. With USB2 and eSATA, is there really a need for another external interface standard?flipmode - Friday, August 3, 2007 - link
Firewire is worth keeping and making standard. It's the easiest way to network two computers. It's how almost every video camera downloads video to computers.Myrandex - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
The specs said that the chipset supported 2 PATA ports, however there is only 1 slot on the board. So it only supports 2 drives, or did Biostar decide to save $.005 in not putting the 2nd connector on the board?8steve8 - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
this is regarded as the industry's first AM2+ board, i assume this means pheonom will plop right in? so does it support HT3?... seperate power planes?how will boards do that with just a bios update?
will this, and other current boards work with phenom, but not at full potential?
Spoelie - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
Read the article instead of commenting right away.No, it is not a AM2+ board, it doesn't have any of the AM2+ features, but phenom would normally plop right in yes.
Am a bit disappointed with the feature set, my 3 years old nforce4 ultra has the same amount of sata, pata, usb, gige, etc.
shuffle2 - Thursday, August 2, 2007 - link
"No, it is not a AM2+ board, it doesn't have any of the AM2+ features, but phenom would normally plop right in yes."We realize it doesn't have HT3 or split power lanes, however, the question still stands:
will this board support phenom with only a bios update?
Spuke - Saturday, August 4, 2007 - link
Since this is technically NOT an AM2+ board, when are the AM2+ boards coming out? I'd like to buy one.