FIRST LOOK: ULi M1697 for Athlon 64/x2

General Performance

There is little to distinguish or detract from the ULi M1697 in Winstone benchmarks. For a chipset designed for low price that should be considered high praise. The ULi Reference is competitive with the best Socket 939 Athlon 64 boards that we have tested. Performance in Winstones falls in the center of tightly clustered performance.

PCMark 2005 shows the ULi M1697 Reference to be one of the better performers in this System Performance Test. Part of this is the improved performance of the 81.95 drivers. The ULi M1697 also performs about the same as the Asus Dual x16 NVIDIA board that we recently tested with the same 81.85 driver family.