ALI (ULi) M1687 K8 chipset Reference Motherboard Review
Omega65
Philadelphia, Pa
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Introduction
The Athlon 64 (Socket 754) will be officially announced on 23rd September 2003. ALi which has been quiet for the past 1 year is back in the market. ALi/ULi offers a long ready solution for the K8 and it is the M1687 + M1563.
M1687 is ALi’s new generation North bridge that offers a high-performance and cost-effective solution for PC systems. It supports the AMD® K8 Processors.
Athlon 64 1.8ghz 3100+ (now 2900+)
Before we benchmark, we take a look at some of our findings about the processor.
The processor we are using for the benchmark test is rated 3100+. Before press time, we were notified by various sources that it has been renamed as 2900+. We reaffirmed it with another manufacturer and it is also reflected as 2900+ when I booted up with the other board.
This CPU runs at 200MHz FSB with a multiplier of 9 as indicated in the screen shot below. It has 128K L1 (64K Data + 64K Code) and has 1MB of L2 cache.
Conclusion
The performance is highly dependent on the CPU and the components used. In our tests comparing it with the K7 platforms - nForce2, SiS 748 and VIA KT600, we can easily see where the A64 (3100+, now probably 2900+) stands in comparison to a AXP3200+ on the various chipsets.
The high scores in CCWS 2002 is a good indicator of the high speed IDE interface since the old days of the ALiMAGiK1 chipset. Its amazingly blazing speed is comparable to SiS 963. From our findings, the AGP performance is good but there is room for improvement because I was told Integrated driver 2.05 AGP driver has bugs. We used Integrated 2.04 in our tests.
In our tests, we didn't face major issues. The board works well in both CAS 2, 2.5 under aggressive timings without a fault. We even stress test the system running it with SUPERPI together with FoldingClient and it is still running right now when I type this (all at CAS 2, 5-2-2). With this reference board, we can overclock the FSB to 218MHz FSB (1.965ghz) and it is rock stable at CAS 2.5, 6-3-3.
Introduction
The Athlon 64 (Socket 754) will be officially announced on 23rd September 2003. ALi which has been quiet for the past 1 year is back in the market. ALi/ULi offers a long ready solution for the K8 and it is the M1687 + M1563.
M1687 is ALi’s new generation North bridge that offers a high-performance and cost-effective solution for PC systems. It supports the AMD® K8 Processors.
Athlon 64 1.8ghz 3100+ (now 2900+)
Before we benchmark, we take a look at some of our findings about the processor.
The processor we are using for the benchmark test is rated 3100+. Before press time, we were notified by various sources that it has been renamed as 2900+. We reaffirmed it with another manufacturer and it is also reflected as 2900+ when I booted up with the other board.
This CPU runs at 200MHz FSB with a multiplier of 9 as indicated in the screen shot below. It has 128K L1 (64K Data + 64K Code) and has 1MB of L2 cache.
Conclusion
The performance is highly dependent on the CPU and the components used. In our tests comparing it with the K7 platforms - nForce2, SiS 748 and VIA KT600, we can easily see where the A64 (3100+, now probably 2900+) stands in comparison to a AXP3200+ on the various chipsets.
The high scores in CCWS 2002 is a good indicator of the high speed IDE interface since the old days of the ALiMAGiK1 chipset. Its amazingly blazing speed is comparable to SiS 963. From our findings, the AGP performance is good but there is room for improvement because I was told Integrated driver 2.05 AGP driver has bugs. We used Integrated 2.04 in our tests.
In our tests, we didn't face major issues. The board works well in both CAS 2, 2.5 under aggressive timings without a fault. We even stress test the system running it with SUPERPI together with FoldingClient and it is still running right now when I type this (all at CAS 2, 5-2-2). With this reference board, we can overclock the FSB to 218MHz FSB (1.965ghz) and it is rock stable at CAS 2.5, 6-3-3.
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Comments
I'm thinking the other K8 chipsets might not be ready...