The performance of VIA's
KT266A chipset is already top notch, however as usual I didn't leave well enough
alone. Using the Mushkin Enhanced High Performance DDR, we were able to push the
board up to 174 MHz FSB. This about 4 MHz shy of what the memory could do on the Epox
8KHA+, but it's still very good.
| pcstats test system specs: |
|
|
computer hardware: |
|
| processor: |
AthlonXP 2000+ |
| Clock Speed:
|
12.5x133MHz = 1.66 GHz
9.5x174 MHz = 1.65 GHz |
| Motherboards: |
Abit KR7A-133RAID
Epox
8KHA+
MSI KT3
Ultra
|
| Chipset: |
VIA KT266A (Abit, Epox)
VIA KT333 (MSI) |
| Videocard: |
MSI GeForce 3 Ti500 (MS-8850) |
| Sound Card: |
N/A |
| Network Card:
|
N/A |
| Memory: |
Mushkin Enhanced High Performance
PC2100 DDR |
| Hard Drive: |
40GB IBM DeskStar 60 GXP
|
| CDROM: |
Panasonic 48x CD-ROM
CR-594-B |
| Floppy: |
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy
Drive |
| Heatsink: |
ThermalTake Dragon
Orb 3 |
| PowerSupply: |
Antec 400W
PSU |
| Software Setup
|
Windows 2000 Pro + SP2
VIA 4in1
4.38V
DetonatorXP 22.80
DirectX
8.1 |
| Benchmarks |
SysMark 2001
SysMark 2002
Business Winstone 2001
Content
Creation 2001
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra 2002
Pro
PCMark2002
3DMark2001SE
Serious Sam 2
Return to
Castle Wolfenstein |
SYSmark2001 uses real world
applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following
patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads
accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at
a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions,
in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and
applications. Higher numbers denote better performance.
In
SysMark2001 the KR7A-133 performs on par with both
the 8KHA+ (KT266A) and the KT3 Ultra (KT333) which is very good. The office productivity
benchmarks seem to get a huge boost when the system is
overclocked.
SysMark2002 is more of
an extension of SysMark2001 rather then a whole new benchmark. The
applications used during testing have been updated and most importantly for AMD
users, the new SysMark2002 uses the Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which
supports the AthlonXP's SSE instructions.
As we mentioned earlier, SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001 rather then a whole new benchmark. We're not really sure how
the KR7A-133RAID does since we don't have any comparisons just yet but we're
pretty sure the numbers are in line with the other boards.
Winstone 2001 |
Source: Zdnet |
|
Content Creation Winstone
2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those
applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call
"hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where
you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.
Business Winstone is a
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98
ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which
runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time
a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance
scores.
I'm not
really sure what to make of the Business Winstone benchmarks here. The
performance difference is almost 50% which would lead me to believe that
something is wrong. Please disregard that particular benchmark at the moment.
With Content Creation, the KR7A keeps up with both the 8KHA+ and the KT3 Ultra
which means it is in some very nice
company.
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