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WinFast 6100K8MA-RS Motherboard

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PCQ Bureau
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This is an ordinary board meant for



regular office work. It supports 939 pin Athlon 64 and Sempron CPUs, and has an

nVidia GeForce 6100 and nForce 410 North and



South




Bridge




chips respectively. The board has four DIMMs that can take upto 4 GB of DDR 400

RAM.

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Price:
Rs 3995 (3 yrs warranty)


Key Specs:
nVidia 6100 chipset, AMD Athlon 64 and Turion support, 8 USB and 3 FireWire ports, poor onboard graphics, SATA II support with RAID 0 and 1, onboard eight-channel audio


Contact:


Mediatech India, Delhi Tel: 51607666 Email id:

haresh@mediatechindia.com

Also, it has one PCI-E x16 slot if you want to add another

graphics card. It has ample eight USB and three FireWire ports. Plus, it has the

usual IDE ports and two SATA ports supporting SATA II drives. The SATA II drives

support RAID 0 and 1 configurations. There is a single 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port

for network connectivity. It also sports  an onboard eight-channel audio

for high



quality audio. We first tested this board



using its onboard graphics and an Athlon FX55 processor with 1GB of DDR 400 RAM

and a SATA drive. Interestingly, the board was just not able to run any of the

benchmarks, making it difficult for us to judge its performance against

comparable boards.

Otherwise, the board ran just fine when put to normal

usage. We then added an XFX 7800GT graphics card and ran SYSmark04, which ran

fine and gave a good score of 193. In fact, the benchmark scores were similar to

that of a high-end board like MSI K8N Diamond Plus (page 133, March 2006,

PCQuest).

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 Plus, it scored 4991 and 7273 for the PCMark04 and

3DMark05 respectively. In the gaming benchmarks like DOOM3, it scored 74.3 fps

against the 90 fps of the MSI.

Bottom Line: Overall, the board has a decent set of

features, but we wouldn't really trust anybody using it with its onboard

graphics. Using it with a separate graphics card is fine.

Anubhav Verma

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