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Our test system specs should be noted for a proper
backdrop on which you can compare performance
numbers.
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| H.H.
Test System |
| Mainstream
components |
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Pentium
III 933MHz., Transcend
TS-ASL3 Motherboard,
Abit SA6R Motherboard and MSI MS-6337 Motherboard,
128MB of PC133 True CAS2 SDRAM from Corsair
(thanks Outside
Loop), IBM 15Gig 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Drive
(thanks again Outside
Loop), nVidia GeForce 2 GTS 64MB
AGP Graphics Card , Kenwood
72X CDROM, Win 98SE, DirectX 8, nVidia Detonator 3 Drivers
version 6.31
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| Benchmarks
With The ASL3 |
| Performance
as solid as its stability |
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We
start off our testing with a standard round of SiSoft
Sandra scores.
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CPU
Test 933
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Memory
Test 933
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Multimedia
Test 933
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Drive
Performance 933
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CPU
Test 1.03GHz.
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Memory
Test 933
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I'll
offer two quick points of observation in
these tests. First the CPU performance test
shows the PLL Clock driver on the ASL3 to be set
"slightly" conservative, showing the CPU
clock set to 931MHz. instead of the exact
933MHz. PLL Clock technology is not an
exact science and there is always some skew and
drift from the base clock frequency.
On the
other hand, the memory scores show a slightly more
aggressive timing with excellent performance
across the board. In our overclocked tests,
the memory performance at 147MHz. FSB is a fairly
impressive rivaling an also "out of
spec" BX133 chipset based board.
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| Head-to-Head
Business Winstone Performance Tests |
| Versus
the Abit SA6R and MSI MS-6337, the
Transcend ASL3 keeps pace |
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Our
"light duty" mainstream business
benchmark suite has now officially moved to Ziff
Davis' Business Winstone 2001.
Roughly
within 3% of each other, these similarly
configured i815E boards all show good performance
throughout the various business applications that
are utilized in these tests. MS Project,
Access, Power Point 2000 and Lotus Notes are all
part of this suite and the difference in relative
processing power clock for clock, is negligible.
Content
Creation Winstone, Gaming Performance and The
Rating
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