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The GNB Max is a good board by its own right, but if your computing situation demands more of a heavy-hitter then todays review of the MSI E7205 Master-L could be just what the doctor ordered.
82% Rating: 
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Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2003, HD Tach 2.61
Sisoft Sandra 2003 |
Source: Sandra |
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Sandra is designed to
test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The
numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real
world performance.
| SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmark Results |
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MSI GNB MAX |
Score |
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Multimedia Benchmark
(FSB) |
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| 1. |
Integer SSE - 133/266 |
11208 it/s |
| 2. |
Floating-Point SSE - 133/266 |
14278 it/s |
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CPU Benchmark (FSB) |
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| 3. |
Dhrystone ALU - 133/266 |
7478 MIPS |
| 4. |
Whetstone FPU - 133/266 |
1618 FPU/3708 SSE2 MFLOPS |
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Memory Benchmark (FSB) |
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| 5. |
Integer ALU - 133/266 |
3354 MB/s |
| 6. |
Float FPU - 133/266 |
3354 MB/s |
When viewing the
Sandra 2003
benchmarks please keep in mind that they're not comparable to results from
Sandra 2002. For some reason in 2003 the same system will score a bit
higher.
HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows
95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000. In Windows 9X/ME it uses a special kernel
mode VXD to get maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. A similar
mechanism is used in Windows NT/2000. The HD Tach sequential read test is a
little bit different from other benchmarks. Most benchmarks create a file
on the hard drive and test within that file. The problem is that modern
hard drives use a zone bit recording technique that allows different read speeds
depending on where the data is located. Data on the outside of the drive
is much faster than data recorded on the inside.
| HDTach 2.61 |
| Access time (ms) |
8.8 ms |
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Read burst speed (mbps) |
Over 80MB/s |
| Read speed max (kps) |
35416 kps |
| Read speed min (kps) |
23120 kps |
| Read speed avg (kps) |
31702.7 kps |
| CPU utilization |
1.7% |
Using a 10k RPM SCSI drive we see that the access
time is quite a bit faster then IDE drives. CPU Utilization is at an amazing 1.7%
while most a Maxtor D740X is running 7.8%!
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