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ABIT SR7-8X SiS648 Motherboard Review
ABIT SR7-8X SiS648 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
It's nice to see that manufacturers are quickly adopting the SiS 648 chipset as an alternative to Intel's i845D/E/G DDR chipsets.
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External Mfg. Website: ABIT Sep 10 2002   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone

pcstats test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor: pentium 4 1.6a
clock speed:

16 x 133 mhz = 2.13 ghz

16 x 141 mhz = 2.26 ghz

motherboards: msi 648 max-f
abit sr7-8x
chipset: sis 648
videocard:

msi g4ti4600-vtd

memory:

256mb corsair xms3200 cas2

hard drive: 40 gb samsung sp4004h
cdrom: nec 52x cd-rom
floppy:

panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive

heatsink: retail intel hsf
powersupply: antec 400w psu
software setup windowsxp build 2600
sis agp 1.11
detonatorxp 30.82
benchmarks

sysmark 2002
business winstone 2001
content creation 2001
winbench 99
sisoft sandra 2002 pro
pcmark2002

3dmark2001se
quake iii arena

please note, we could not get the sr7-8x to run with the memory operating at 400 mhz no matter what we tried or used.

BAPCO Sysmark 2002 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

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.

BapCo SysMark 2002 Benchmark Results
Internet Content (FSB/Memory) Sysmarks Ranking
1. 648 MAX - 133/400 290
2. SR7-8X - 133/333 301
3. SR7-8X - 141/353 315

Office Productivity (FSB/Memory)

1 648 MAX - 133/400 137
2. SR7-8X - 133/333 140
3. SR7-8X - 141/353 143

SysMark2002 seems to like the SR7-8X more then the 648 MAX even though the memory bandwidth is lower... Please remember though, on the MSI 648 MAX, the performance difference between 400 MHz memory operation and 333 MHz memory was nil.

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.

Winstone 2001 Benchmark Results
Content Creation (FSB/Memory) Scores Ranking
1. 648 MAX - 133/400 74.3
2. SR7-8X - 133/333 75.3
3. SR7-8X - 141/353 76.8

Business Winstone (FSB/Memory)

1 648 MAX - 133/400 50.7
2. SR7-8X - 133/333 49.9
3. SR7-8X - 141/353 50.7

Here we see that the motherboard perform about the same no matter what the speed they're running.

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Contents of Article: ABIT SR7-8X
 Pg 1.  ABIT SR7-8X SiS648 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  SiS 648 Northbridge and Overclocking
 Pg 3.  The Abit SR7-8X BIOS
 Pg 4.  — Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Winbench, Sandra 2002
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: PCmark 2002, 3DMark
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: QIII Arena and Conclusions

 
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