Test System
Specs: |
Computer: |
AthlonXP1800+ (1.53 GHz at 1.7) 256MB OCZ
PC2400 DDR Ram EPoX 8KHA+ MSI
StarForce822 (GeForce3 200/460) Promise Ultra100 IDE
Controller ATi TV Wonder 10/100 Realtek NIC AOpen 56k Modem SB
Live! Platinum 5.1 30GB IBM DeskStar 75 GXP 2x 30GB Seagate
Barracuda III 20GB Quantum Fireball AS 12x Toshiba
DVD-Rom 16x10x40 Yamaha CD-RW Plus seven (7) case fans...
Enermax 430W PSU |
Software: |
Windows 98SE Via 4in1 4.35V DetonatorXP
22.80 All the rest of the devices had their respectable latest drivers |
Benchmarks: |
SiSoft Sandra 001 Content Creation Winbench
99 3DMark2000 Ver 1.1 3DMark2001 Vulpine's GLMark Quake III
Arena Ver 1.17 Return to Castle
Wolfenstein |
Hey, I know what you're thinking, how come so
many devices/fans? Remember, I said this board was going to replace my Iwill
KK266-R so might as well use everything! Oh, by the way all those fans combined
are not as loud as (1) 60mm Delta
fan by itself!
Sisoft Sandra: CPU Benchmark |
Motherboard: |
Setting: |
ALU: |
FPU: |
Epox 8KHA+ |
12.5x133 |
4604 MIPS |
2315 MFLOPS |
Epox 8KHA+ |
10x170 |
4711 MIPS |
2369 MFLOPS |
Sisoft Sandra: Multimedia Benchmark |
Motherboard: |
Setting: |
Integer: |
Floating point: |
Epox 8KHA+ |
12.5x133 |
9163 it/s |
10627 it/s |
Epox 8KHA+ |
10x170 |
9375 it/s |
10873 it/s |
Sisoft Sandra: Memory Bandwidth
Benchmark |
Motherboard: |
Setting: |
Int ALU: |
Float FPU: |
Epox 8KHA+ |
12.5x133 |
ALU 2041 MB/s |
FPU 1909 MB/s |
Epox 8KHA+ |
10x170 |
ALU 2608 MB/s |
FPU 2405 MB/s |
Sandra is a
good tester of pure power. As we can see, they all perform within a few hundred
points of each other. The Sandra memory benchmark used to be one of my favorites, however
now it's become quite ridiculous. It's common knowledge that the i850/RDRam
combo has the most memory bandwidth. There's no way a DDR system can match
it! I liked the older memory tester in 2001 TE, as it measured more realistic
bandwidth.
Content Creation Winstone 2001 |
Setting: |
Content Creation Winstone |
12.5x133 |
66.7 Winstone Units |
10x170 |
70.2 Winstone Units |
There isn't much of a noticeable difference between the two systems according to Content Creation. More of
a CPU test and since the speeds are so close together, it's no surprise the
performance is very similar.
ZDNet's Winbench99
WinMark 99 |
Setting: |
Business Disk
| High-end Disk: |
Business Graphics: |
High-end Graphics: |
12.5x133 |
10200 |
19000 |
777 |
2300 |
10x170 |
10400 |
19300 |
811 |
2410 |
The little difference in the CPU speed makes up the difference in this benchmark. It's
not something a person could really notice though. Let's take a look at some
3D benchmarks now!
MadOnion 3DMark 2000 Ver 1.1 |
Setting: |
3D Marks |
12.5x133 |
10982 |
10x170 |
11493 |
3DMark2000 notices a minor difference between
the two systems. A difference of 500 points really isn't much
anymore all things considered.
3DMark2001
MadOnion 3DMark 2001 |
Setting: |
3D Marks |
12.5x133 |
7659 |
10x170 |
8177 |
3DMark2001 is well known for loving high bus speeds, this time,
it clearly favors the system with a 170 MHz FSB! 3DMark2001 is a pretty good
DirectX8 benchmark.
Vulpine's GLMark |
Setting: |
Score |
12.5x133 |
77.3 |
10x170 |
79.3 |
Hmm... it looks
like GLMark is more of a video card benchmark as it
can barely differentiate between the two systems. Okay, I'm pretty tired of the synthetics
right now. Let's take a look at some real world game engines :-)