General Performance & Encoding
The ULi M1695 is more than competitive with the best NVIDIA nForce4 boards that we have tested. The Business Winstone score for the ULi was the best that we have measured so far, and the Multimedia Content Creation Winstone was one of the top scores that we have seen. PCMark 2004 and Media Encoding showed performance at middle of the road compared to other nF4 Ultra boards. Overall, the ULi M1695/M1567 would have to be considered competitive in General Performance and Encoding with the fourth generation NVIDIA nForce4 chipset. This is not the first ULi/Ali chipset for Athlon 64, but ULi is anything but a recognized leader in this market. The fact that ULi competes very well with NVIDIA nForce4 in these benchmarks says a lot about the quality and potential of the ULi design.
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jpkomm - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link
In reference to the comments on ASrock's making of this board, I got word back from their US sales division as to when their board will actually be released in the US market. They said they have no plans on selling the "939Dual-SATAII" motherboard in the US region. Oi that bites. Anyone know of other companies planning on producing these boards? The ASrock board looks and (from the reviews) performs great, but I'm not going to hold out for the chance that it never comes to the US market.justly - Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - link
Are you actually surprised by this? I would probably do the same thing since most Americans will only purchase a product surrounded by marketing hype.
ElJefe - Monday, August 22, 2005 - link
the dual sata 939 will be sold in the US. asrock said it, asrock america sales said it too................(just in case anyone reads this thread... but the real discussion is in the 2nd, newest article here at anandtech)
hazeldene - Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - link
I wonder if you would be able to use an ATI AGP X-Series card as a Slave with an ATI X-series crossfire in the PCI-express slot... that would be the cheapest Crossfire / SLi upgrade ever !!!mistersnail - Monday, July 18, 2005 - link
http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/m1695-uli-1.htmCrossfire can be done on this board
val - Sunday, July 17, 2005 - link
#65 last but not least. Suyin is usually the very last thing company does. So buy it until you can. We loves all of you who look to only syntetic tests and benchmarks, we have cheap intel cpus - thanks to you .val - Sunday, July 17, 2005 - link
#65 if you have in your room already 35, than there is something wrong with your room planing. No pcs can change it if you are still running heating or teaching in stove. And saying it last, do your math and learn what percents and thermall loss means. The difference to AMD platform is in percents of complete amount of heaters in room small and thermal loss increases exponentialy.However, world proves that some heating issues cannot change the fact that no "fanatic - glad of self punishment" admin would install room of amd systems.
mino - Saturday, July 16, 2005 - link
#62 it was not mentioned exactly anywhere (no one knows it actually) but rough estimate is 4 to 8 weeks. I believe it will be much closer to the seconf number.#63 One think I forgot something. Do you really believe it is technically feasible to guarantee 38C ambient temperature when the is about 35C in the room ?
mino - Saturday, July 16, 2005 - link
1) Actually I read tom's since they make some unique test sometimes. They are one of(many) relatively goog sites.2) Cooler classroom _will_ help mostly better learning/teaching, I said that.
3) Actually I like AMD's approach. However where bussiness is concerned only facts matter. I bought many Intel systems recently, but they were chosen because of their better suitability then. This is not the case here (meaning almost whole [prescott lineup).
4) actually in the room is normally running _single_ central heater. You forgot that rooms are not allways build in separate building. In this case only contacts with the outside are windows. Also remember the radiation form of heating causes lower temperature than convection at the sam output. The out pu t during the day should be around ~200W/machine(incl.LCD) + 1kW of lights make ~7kW which is close to your number. This however considers idle state, but there are working people about 50-70% of time so real average would be about 8kW for prescott room.
5) Anobody saying idle Prescott PC+LCD will consume about 100W of power is either mislleading or has no idea what he is tlaking about. This figure however fits our Newcastle's nicely.
6) Yes anybody could suck any number of any claims out of its finger anytime. Nothing new here.
What matters to me our academic society could work in these new classrooms without major health issues and having to abuse IT staff for what they bought.
That is what make me happy no matter what you think.
val - Saturday, July 16, 2005 - link
#60: it is whole crap.You are reading too much toms hardware. Intel is not throttling when you install cooler properly.
Cooler classroom will not help to admin when he have to spend there every day one hour.
You are talking like typical AMD fanboy, using untrusted claims which nobody would ever believe. Trust me, that 5100W running 8 hours a day will not heat up to 30° when outside is -10 with "any" isolation.
And even if it would, it would not heat it much more than 3000W using any power saving PC.
I can suck out of my finger 20 claims like that one you posted - if you want, so save your time writing stories.