ABIT AT7 Max2 KT400 Review (4)
Overclocker 30 Sept 2002

Benchmarking

ZD Content Creation 2002

Content Creation Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP. Content Creation Winstone 2002 uses the following applications:

• Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
• Adobe Premiere 6.0
• Macromedia Director 8.5
• Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055
• Netscape Navigator 6/6.01
• Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c (build 184)

Following the lead of real users, Content Creation Winstone 2002 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a single large test that runs the above applications through a series of scripted activities and returns a single score. Those 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.

From our test, the ABIT AT7 Max2 seems to be slower than the Gigabyte 7VAXP in terms of Content Creation. From our experience in the test of ABIT boards, we noticed that ABIT boards are generally tuned towards graphical performance. Anyway, the percentage difference isn't that great. < 1 point difference. Furthermore, I have to point out that the 7VAXP is running at 133.9Mhz (based on WCPUID) which is slightly higher than ABIT AT7 Max2.

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