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Quake 3 Arena
For this benchmark,
we used the High Quality setting under Quake3 with the default resolution of
800x600 and other options left at
default.
 The AKT4 does a wonderful
job under Quake 3 tying the rate at which the Soltek board performs. In fact, it
is just .4 frames behind the A7V.
Memory
Bandwidth
The following scores were taken from benchmarks performed with
SiSoft Sandra 2000's Memory Benchmark
option.
And pretty much the same
scenario here...
To sum up, the AKT4 is quite a solid performer and is
able to challenge most other boards in the fray. Though we are pleased, we would
have very much liked the see it overtake the Asus as we saw in the earlier AVE3
review.
Audio Quality
The AC97 Audio CODEC
as used in the Transcend TS AKT4 relies heavily on the CPU for the processing of
all audio instructions. Due to this, AC97 may not be an attractive options for
hard core gamers. The presence of such a feature only lends towards the
cost effectiveness of a computer system as the expense of an additional
soundcard is removed from the equation. However, we have come across some
motherboards whose integrated CODEC results in very poor quality audio output.
To our surprise, the AKT4 did not disappoint us in this department.
Audio
reproduction was clean, accurate and did not present us with loads of distortion
that we have seen in the past. As a matter of fact, unless you are not satisfied
with frame rates (with AC97 enabled), using the built in audio option is really
not that bad. Of course, if you insist on adding an additional PCI sound card,
the integrated audio can easily be disabled through the system
BIOS.
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