Tul AX480A-GF (ATI Xpress 200P)
Performance
The nominal bus speed is set at some slight overstatement:
We'll be comparing the performance versus Gigabyte
K8NXP-9 built on the nForce4 Ultra chipset as well as the
reference board on the ATI Express200 chipset. In our test setup, we
used the following hardware:
| Test
setup |
| Processor |
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (true clock speed is 2.2GHz, 200õ11) |
| Cooler |
Zalman 7700Cu |
| Video Card |
Abit Radeon X600XT |
| Sound card |
Creative Live 5.1 |
| HDD |
IBM DTLA 307030 30Gb |
| Memory |
2x256 Mb PC3200 DDR SDRAM Platinum rev2.0 made by OCZ |
| Case |
Inwin506 with PowerMan 300W power supply unit |
| OS |
Windows XP SP1 |
Let's first take a look at the results of synthetic
benchmarks.
These are exclusively synthetic benchmarks which demonstrate
the theoretical performance.
Now on to the gaming benchmarks.
Kb/s. the more the better
Tul AX480A-GF has demonstrated a superb performance level!
Again, we should make allowance for the fact that the competitor board
Gigabyte K8NXP-9 overstated the processor clock speed by 30MHz, whereas
the reference board built on Xpress200 downstated it by 11MHz.
Final Words
To date, there is no data on the retail price for Tul
AX480A-GF. Therefore, it is difficult to make a conclusion on the
board's attraction in the buyer's viewpoint. In any case, we must admit
the board is a very well-made and high-quality product aimed at the
middle-end level. The user gets a complete set of expansion options,
standard package bundle, and a very high performance.
From the overclocking viewpoint, the board is of no interest.
It is able overclocking the processor clock speed by no more than 35%
(a very good result, albeit depends on the particular specimen), but
the lack of a feature for raising voltage on the memory makes it
impossible to reach maximum result.
Conclusion
Pros:
- Excellent performance level;
- Support for SerialATA (4 channels; RAID)
- Integrated 8-channel audio and Gigabit LAN controller;
- Support for USB2.0 (8 ports) and IEEE-1394 (2 ports)
- Support for the Cool'n'Quiet.
Cons:
The board's specific features:
- Poor overclocking features.
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