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Aiming for the mass markets generally means you get good value with AOpen products, and one such example of this is the AK79G Max nForce2-GT (Crush 18G) motherboard.
86% Rating: 
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Benchmarks: SysMark2002, Winstone 2002
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Computer Hardware:
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| Processor: |
AthlonXP 3000+ |
| Clock
Speed: |
13 x 166 MHz = 2.17 GHz
13 x 185 MHz = 2.46 GHz |
| Motherboards: |
Epox 8RDA+
Epox 8RGA+
AOpen AK79G
MAX |
| Chipsets: |
nVIDIA nForce2 SPP
nVIDIA nForce2
IGP
nVIDIA nForce2 GT |
| Videocard: |
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro (not used with the 8RGA+ or
AK79G MAX)
Integrated GeForce4 MX |
| Memory: |
2x 256MB Corsair XMS3500 CAS2 (Running DC
Mode) |
| Hard
Drive: |
20GB Maxtor
DiamondMAX+ |
| CDROM: |
NEC 52x CD-ROM |
| Floppy: |
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive |
| Heatsink: |
Thermalright SK6 w/37 CFM YS
Tech |
| PowerSupply: |
Vantec 470W Stealth PSU |
| Software
Setup |
WindowsXP Build 2600
VIA Hyperion
4.45
nVIDIA nForce 2.00
Catalyst 3.1 |
| Benchmarks |
SysMark 2002
Business Winstone 2002
Content Creation
2002
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra
2002
PCMark2002
3DMark2001SE
Quake III Arena
UT2003 |
We all know how fast the nForce2/Radeon 9700
Pro is, and for this review it was not used. Our tests with the Epox
8RGA+ are based entirely on the use of the integrated GeForce4 MX
GPU.
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.
The stock
speed performance of the AOpen AK79G MAX is the pretty much the same as the Epox 8RGA+. Overclocking does boost overall office performance
quite a bit but please keep in mind, the CPU is running much
faster as well.
 Winstone 2002 |
Source: Zdnet |
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Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation
applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows
XP.
Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level,
application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when
running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98,
Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone
doesn't mimic what these packages do; it 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.
Things look a bit different with Winstone 2002 based benchmarks, the AOpen
AK79 MAX lags behind both Epox boards.
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