test system specs:
computer hardware:
processor:	intel 2.0ghz pentium 4
clock speed:	2.00GHz
Motherboards:	VIA P4PA VIA P4XB-RA ACorp 4D845A
Chipsets:	VIA P4X266A (P4PA and P4XB-RA) i845-D (4D845A)
Videocard:	MSI GeForce 3 Ti500 (MS-8850)
Sound Card:	VIA AC'97 codec (onboard)
Network Card:	on board
Memory:	256MB Corsair PC2400 CAS2 DDR
Hard Drive:	Samsung SV6004H 5400RPM UDMA100 60GB
CDROM:	Panasonic 48x CD-ROM CR-594-B
Floppy:	Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Heatsink:	AVC Sunflower
PowerSupply:	Enermax 431Watt
Software Setup	Windows 2000 Pro + SP2 VIA 4in1 4.37V DetonatorXP 22.80 DirectX 8.1
Benchmarks	SysMark 2001 Business Winstone 2001 Content Creation 2001 Winbench 99 SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro 3DMark2001 SE Quake III Arena

BAPCO Sysmark 2001	Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SYSmark2001 uses real world applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions, in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and applications.

Higher numbers denote better performance.

BapCo SysMark 2001 Benchmark Results
	Motherboards	Sysmarks	Ranking
1.	Internet Content Creation - P4PA 100 MHz	213
2	Internet Content Creation - P4PA 111 MHz	239
3.	Internet Content Creation - P4XB-RA 100 MHz	210
4.	Internet Content Creation - 4D845A 100 MHz	208
1	Office Productivity - P4PA 100 MHz	153
2.	Office Productivity - P4PA 111 MHz	165
3.	Office Productivity - P4XB-RA 100 MHz	132
4.	Office Productivity - 4D845A 100 MHz	131

With BapCo SysMark 2001 the VIA P4PA simply destroys the competition (a VIA P4XB-RA and Acorp 4D845A). Even at stock speeds, the P4PA is faster then it's brother the P4XB-RA and faster then the ACorp 4D845A which uses the i845-D chipset! Overclocking the system just widens performance the margin by a further 10-20%.

Winstone 2001	Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call "hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.

Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98 ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Again the VIA P4PA sweeps the the competition in the Winstone 2001 tests. However as fast as this might be or seem, the differences aren't really that important since with office applications, the computer is all user limited.

Winbench 99 V1.2	Source: e-Testinglabs.com

WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. WinBench 99's tests can run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me systems.

WinBench 99 v1.2 Benchmark Results
	VIA P4PA	Score	Ranking
1.	Business Disk - 100 MHz	6220
1a.	Business Disk - 111 MHz	6060
2.	High-End Disk - 100 MHz	16800
2a.	High-End Disk - 111 MHz	16500
3.	Business Graphics - 100 MHz	610
3a.	Business Graphics - 111 MHz	660
4.	High-End Graphics - 100 MHz	1002
4a.	High-End Graphics - 111 MHz	1095

As we can see here, the P4PA's hard drive subsystem doesn't like to be overclocked, however the AGP does get a fairly healthy boost from the added bandwidth running faster brings.

Sisoft Sandra 2001	Source: Sandra

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 2001 Benchmark Results
	VIA P4PA	Score
	Multimedia Benchmark
1.	Integer SSE2 - 100 MHz	8027it/s
1a.	Integer SSE2 - 111 MHz	8923 it/s
2.	Floating-Point SSE2- 100 MHz	9794 it/s
2a.	Floating-Point SSE2 - 111 MHz	10873 it/s
	CPU Benchmark
3.	Dhrystone ALU - 100 MHz	3800 MIPS
3a.	Dhrystone ALU - 111 MHz	4364 MIPs
4.	Whetstone FPU - 100 MHz	1057 FPU/2483 SSE2 MFLOPS
4a.	Whetstone FPU - 111 MHz	1013 FPU/2788 SSE2 MFLOPS
	Memory Benchmark
5.	Integer ALU - 100 MHz	2079 MB/s
5a.	Integer ALU - 111 MHz	2312 MB/s
6.	Float FPU - 100 MHz	2071 MB/s
6a.	Float FPU - 111 MHz	2304 MB/s

Here with SiSoft Sandra, the motherboard scales very well with the processor. Overclocking the system brings the scores up by about 11% each.

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