For our
benchmarking of the SOYO SY-TISU, we've included comparison
benchmarks from an Intel D815EEA2 motherboard.
Although boards differ slightly - the Intel comes with
on-board video for example - we've opted to use the Intel as
a baseline for all future reviews with the Tualatin 1.20GHz.
processor.
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HotHardware Test Systems |
Zesty... |
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Intel
Pentium III "Tualatin" 1.20GHz.
Global Win
FOP38 7000RPM Cooler
256
Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+ RAM
Soyo
SY-TISU Motherboard
Gigabyte
GeForce 3 Video card
15GB IBM
7200RPM ATA 100
Hercules
Game Theater XP
Windows
Millennium
Direct X
8.0a
Intel ATA
Storage Drivers 6.1
nVidia
reference drivers version 12.41 |
Intel
Pentium III "Tualatin" 1.20GHz.
Global Win FOP38
7000RPM Cooler
256
Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+ RAM
Intel
D815EEA2 Motherboard
Gigabyte
GeForce 3 Video card
15GB IBM
7200RPM ATA 100
Hercules
Game Theater XP
Windows
Millennium
Direct X
8.0a
Intel ATA
Storage Drivers 6.1
nVidia
reference drivers version 12.41 |
Now that we have
the board in place and ready to roll, let's take a look and
see how the numbers added up against the baseline.
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Business and Content Creation
Winstone |
Bring it on. |
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The first test we ran was
Business Winstone 2001, an acid test of today's intensive
business-oriented applications. We followed that up
with a solid helping of Content Creation Winstone 2001,
which
stresses system
performance with graphic applications such as Adobe
Photoshop 5.5.
As you can see, the SOYO
SY-TISU delivered performance virtually identical to that
of the Intel D815EEA2 motherboard. Take note that
these are excellent numbers for a Pentium III processor.
This is where the features of the Tualatin processor
combined with the i815 chipset get to strut their stuff.
Now we will take a breather
from benchmarking for a moment so we can start tinkering
with some FSB settings and see what this setup can do.
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Overclocking The
Soyo SY-TISU Motherboard |
Taking it to the
limit... |
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With the Soyo SY-TISU
motherboard, we had no difficulty pumping the FSB up to
163MHz., pushing the "Tualatin" to a hefty 1.47GHz.
This was done without a single voltage adjustment
whatsoever! On the next page we've put together a
side-by-side comparison with Sandra 2001te, showing
performance at both default and overclocked speed.
Sandra, Quake 3, 3DMark, and Final Thoughts...