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The H.H. Test Rig was
configured as follows....
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| Test
System |
| The
baseline for performance |
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- Gigabyte
GA-8TX Motherboard with Pentium 4 Processor @
1.5GHz.
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256MB of Samsung PC800 RAMBUS DRDRAM,
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IBM DTLA307030 30Gig ATA100 7200 RPM Hard Drive - Supplied
by Outside Loop!
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nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB AGP Graphics Card,
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56K PCI Modem
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Sound Blaster Live Sound Card,
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Hitachi DVD ROM Drive,
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WindowsME
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Direct X 8.0 and nVidia reference drivers version
7.17
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Intel chipset drivers version 2.60a
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| Benchmarks
With The GA-8TX |
| Interesting
results... |
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A
quick rundown with SiSoft's Sandra was in order.
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CPU
Test 1.5GHz.
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Memory
Bandwidth 1.5GHz.
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Multi-Media
Test 1.5GHz.
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Drive
Performance Test
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CPU
Test 1.65GHz.
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Memory
Bandwidth 1.65GHz.
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There are a
couple of fairly interesting points of interest
here. First the memory bandwidth of this
board is actually somewhat higher than the
reference system. This tells us something
about the "DMA Collection Buffer"
setting in the BIOS, since both the Intel
reference D850GB board and Asus P4T we have tested
in the past, were neck and neck with the reference
scores. The GA-8TX has just a touch more
memory bandwidth to spare in this test, more than
any board we have tested to date.
Also
interesting to note, is that the drive performance
scores produced by the GA-8TX are fair to
midland. This was the case with the other
boards we have tested thus far with the i850
chipset. Perhaps Intel needs to polish
things up for the ATA interface here or perhaps
this is just not a strong suite for the P4
platform. Either way, drive subsystem
performance was decent but not stellar.
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| Head-to-Head
/ Performance Progression |
| The
GA-8TX versus Intel and Asus |
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Here on the Business Winstone tests, we'll compare
the board with the competition.
Typically
memory bandwidth performance doesn't play much of
a roll in Business Winstone tests, because they
are just not that taxing in that area. So
why then does the GA-8TX pull away here? We
don't have anything conclusive for you on this
unfortunately but the numbers speak for
themselves.
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