[Pc_Support] AnandTech on nForce4 Ultra mainboards ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Thought I'd point out that AnandTech has done a review of various
nForce4 Ultra mainboards:  
  http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465  

If you're not looking at SLI, which may or may not benefit you at all,
then you probably just want an nForce4 Ultra mainboard.  They prices
start at sub-$100 Foxconn NF4UK8AA and around $110 for the Epox 9NPA+,
and climb to mid-$150+ for other mainboards.

Personally, I could care less about overclocking these days, and the
Foxconn's "little brother" in my Foxconn NF4K8MC-ERS (nForce4 Standard)
MicroATX has totally sold me on reliability.  But that's just me.  Anand
found most of the benchmarks that had it "on-par" with most of the other
mainboards.

Overall, AnandTech has done an _excellent_review_ of not only the
standard benchmarks, but the audio, ATA, NIC and other features,
including CPU utilization of different configurations.  That's always a
consideration (especially an ALC850 in 3D spatial audio -- bam!  CPU
hit!).


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