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.	P4 3.2C/Gigabyte 8KNXP (200/400)	10582
2.	P4 3.2C/Epox 4PDA2+ (200/400)	10560
3.	P4 3.2C/SiS 655FX Ref Board (200/400)	9726
4.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (200/400)	9988
5.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (211/422)	10515

AquaMark3 Benchmark Results
	Overall	Points	Ranking
1.	P4 3.2C/Gigabyte 8KNXP (200/400)	44743
2.	P4 3.2C/Epox 4PDA2+ (200/400)	44749
3.	P4 3.2C/SiS 655FX Ref Board (200/400)	44297
4.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (200/400)	44486
5.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (211/422)	44845

For some reason the i875P/i865PE chipset based boards have a bit more CPU power than either the SiS 655FX or VIA PT880 reference chipsets. Not a big deal though as overall performance is essentially identical.

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.	P4 3.2C/Gigabyte 8KNXP (200/400)	536.3
2.	P4 3.2C/Epox 4PDA2+ (200/400)	530.8
3.	P4 3.2C/SiS 655FX Ref Board (200/400)	515.7
4.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (200/400)	519.3
5.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (211/422)	542.7

Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU STRESS)
	Processor	FPS	Ranking
1.	P4 3.2C/Gigabyte 8KNXP (200/400)	146.3
2.	P4 3.2C/Epox 4PDA2+ (200/400)	144.6
3.	P4 3.2C/SiS 655FX Ref Board (200/400)	140.3
4.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (200/400)	142.5
5.	P4 3.2C/VIA PT880 Ref Board (211/422)	147.7

While the Intel chipsets are a little bit faster you're not going to notice it while gaming.