Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 PCSTATS Review - Benchmarks: AquaMark3, Quake III Arena

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The GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 is PAT enabled with it's special MIB (Memory Intelligent Booster), and as you'll see in the benchmarks the board is indeed very speedy!
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External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte		Nov 25 2003	C. Sun

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Benchmarks: AquaMark3, Quake III Arena

AquaMark3	Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark3 Benchmark Results
	Processor	Points	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i875P (200/400)	10186
2.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Asus i875P (200/400)	N/A
3.	Pentium 4 3.0C/MSI i865PE (200/400)	N/A
4.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Abit i865PE (200/400)	N/A
5.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (200/400)	9852
6.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (230/368)	11005

AquaMark3 Benchmark Results
	Overall	Points	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i875P (200/400)	39242
2.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Asus i875P (200/400)	N/A
3.	Pentium 4 3.0C/MSI i865PE (200/400)	N/A
4.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Abit i865PE (200/400)	N/A
5.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (200/400)	39155
6.	Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (230/368)	39468

Well we see that the systems get a nice boost due to overclocking in the Processor portion of AquaMark but it doesn't affect the overall score very much.

Quake III Arena
Source: ID Software

Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS) that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and having graphics textures that can fill videocards.

Quake III Arena Fastest demo001 (SYSTEM)

Processor FPS Ranking

1. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i875P (200/400) 497.6

2. Pentium 4 3.0C/Asus i875P (200/400) 495.6
3. Pentium 4 3.0C/MSI i865PE (200/400) 456.4

4. Pentium 4 3.0C/Abit i865PE (200/400) 454.7

5. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (200/400) 495.4

6. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (230/368) 530.6

Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU STRESS)

Processor FPS Ranking

1. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i875P (200/400) 140.7

2. Pentium 4 3.0C/Asus i875P (200/400) 137.5
3. Pentium 4 3.0C/MSI i865PE (200/400) 122.6

4. Pentium 4 3.0C/Abit i865PE (200/400) 122.7

5. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (200/400) 135.8

6. Pentium 4 3.0C/Gigabyte i865PE (230/368) 149.6

Quake III obviously likes the Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 quite a bit. Those are some very nice stock/overclocked framerates!

Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2
Pg 1. Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 i865PE Motherboard Review Pg 2. Layout and Details Pg 3. The Dual BIOS and CIA Pg 4. Overclocking and BIOS Pg 5. System Spec's and Overclocking Pg 6. Benchmarks: Winbench 99, SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pg 7. Benchmarks: PCMark2002, 3DMark2001 Pg 8. — Benchmarks: AquaMark3, Quake III Arena Pg 9. Benchmarks: UT2003, Conclusions

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