Before we show you the
benchmarks, please take note of the various test systems
used.
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HotHardware's Test Setup |
i850 w/ RDRAM, i845
w/ SDRAM and Athlon w/ DDR |
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Intel Pentium
4 1.8GHz. Processor
256 Samsung
PC800 RAMBUS DRDRAM
Abit
TH7II-RAID Pentium 4 Motherboard
Stock HSF
nVidia
GeForce 3 Video card
30GB IBM 7200
RPM ATA 100
Windows
Millennium
Direct X 8.0
Intel chipset
drivers version 2.90
nVidia reference
drivers version 12.41 |
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz.
Processor
256MB Corsair
PC133 CAS2 SDRAM
Asus P4B
i845 Motherboard
MSI i845Pro2-R Motherboard
Stock HSF
nVidia
GeForce 3 Video card
30GB IBM 7200
RPM ATA 100
Windows
Millennium
Direct X 8.0
Intel chipset
drivers version 2.90
nVidia reference
drivers version 12.41
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AMD Athlon 1.40GHz.
Processor
256 CAS 2 DDRRAM
Epox 8K7A Motherboard
Visiontek GeForce 3 Video
card
30GB IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100
Hercules Game Theater XP
Windows Millennium
Direct X 8.0a
AMD Chipset Drivers
nVidia reference
drivers version 12.41
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Sandra and The Winstones |
Light duty work |
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Sandra scores
are provided for reference but due to the fact that these
are "synthetic" tests, they may or may not be indicative of
real world performance.
MSI 845Pro2-R:
CPU
1.8GHz.
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Memory 400MHz. QDR Bus
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Multimedia 1.8GHz.
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Asus P4B:
CPU
1.8GHz.
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Memory 400MHz. QDR Bus
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Multimedia 1.8GHz.
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If you note the
scores (top bars in each graph) in each of the categories
for both i845 boards, there are subtle differences.
The Asus board wins out on the CPU test with its slightly
more aggressive processor clock timing. The MSI board
takes the memory benchmark by a nose, with its more robust
memory timing. Either way, both boards fall far behind
the RDRAM reference system in this test for memory
bandwidth, as expected. What is surprising is that
Sandra is reporting higher overall system memory bandwidth
than the DDR Athlon reference systems that are listed.
This may be in part, a result of the test's consideration of
CPU and cache memory bandwidth as well. Either way,
Sandra scores should be taken with a grain of salt.
Let's look at
some scores with real world applications as the yardstick
for measurement.
Here we see the
kind of results that were to be expected with this budget
Pentium 4 chipset. In each of the tests, the i845
boards trail both the i850 P4 and Athlon DDR based systems.
In the Biz Winstone test, the i845 based MSI 845Pro2-R and
Asus P4B, are very close to the RDRAM based system.
These tests hardly tax the horsepower of modern day
processors however and are utilizing applications the run
legacy code not optimized for the P4.
Let's move on to
more strenuous testing.
3DMark 2001, Video 2000, Q3 and our ratings
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