The details of how the ECS RS480-M motherboardtest system was configured for benchmarking; the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions is indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this ATI RS480 based motherboard is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results on the next page.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system processor: amd Athlon64 4000+ Clock Speed: 12 x 200 MHz = 2.4 GHz Motherboard: ECS RS480-M (RS480) Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890) MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480) ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (RXpress 1600) ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra) ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16) DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI) DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4 SLI) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (office bencharks with integrated video) Memory: 2x 512MB OCZ Gold GX PC3500 DDR Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Athlon64 4000+ Reference Heatsink Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware 6.70 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 Super Pi SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 3DMark06 UT2004 FarCry Doom 3 Quake 4

SYSmark2004	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition to extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

SYSmark2004
Internet Overall:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	218
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	212
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	235
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	236
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	232
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	240
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	232
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	218
3D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	212
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	207
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	221
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	217
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	218
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	222
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	208
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	210
2D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	264
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	258
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	284
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	293
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	285
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	285
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	291
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	255
Web Publication	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	187
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	175
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	206
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	206
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	201
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	207
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	206
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	185
Office Overall:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	207
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	210
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	222
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	218
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	214
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	220
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	219
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	213
Communication:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	212
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	233
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	255
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	247
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	242
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	251
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	245
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	240
Document Creation:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	223
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	218
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	219
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	224
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	215
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	222
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	226
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	210
Data Analysis:	Points	Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400)	188
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400)	182
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Rxpress 1600 200/400)	196
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400)	187
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400)	188
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400)	193
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400)	189
ECS RS480-M (RS480 200/400)	185

SYSMark2004 results for the ECS RS480-M motherboard are pretty strong in this office oriented application. The system is able to keep with much higher end motherboards quite easily. This underscores how computers destined for office oriented tasks can vary wildly in terms of hardware but still provide great results. Next is Winstone 2004, another office productivity benchmark.