ABIT BD7-II RAID i845E Review (2)
Overclocker 24 May 2002

Benchmarking

Systems Compared

Intel 845E series

• ABIT BD7-II RAID, MSI 845E Max2, DFI NB73-EA, ASUS P4B533-E, Gigabyte 8IEXP
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 533Mhz
• 512MB Winbond DDR333 DDR
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• MSI Geforce3 Ti200 /Detonator 21.83
• Windows 2000 + SP2
• Intel Application Accelerator

Intel 845G series

• Intel D845GBV, EPoX 4G4A
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 533Mhz
• 512MB Winbond DDR333 DDR
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• MSI Geforce3 Ti200 /Detonator 21.83
• Windows 2000 + SP2
• Intel Application Accelerator

Intel 850E series

• Intel D850EMD2 i850E mainboard
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 533Mhz
• 512MB PC-800 RAMBUS
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• MSI Geforce3 Ti200 /Detonator 21.83
• Windows 2000 + SP2
• Intel Application Accelerator

SiS645DX series

• ASUS P4S533 SiS645DX mainboard 
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 533Mhz
• 512MB Winbond DDR333 DDR
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• MSI Geforce3 Ti200 /Detonator 21.83
• Windows 2000 + SP2
• SiS1.09 AGP driver

The following tests are run at least 3 times to obtain a sustain score. MSI 845E Max2 is set to run at the best timings of CAS 2, DDR266, 2-2-5. DFI NB73-EA is set to run at 2-2-5.

The ASUS P4S533 is tested under two environments.

1) Best timings at CAS 2, 1T, DDR333, 2-2-2-4 RAM timings to reach the best speed. (async timing)
2) Turbo timings at CAS 2.5, 2T, DDR266, 3-3-3-6 RAM timings. (sync timing)

All above setup are set to operate with an AGP aperture size of 128MB so that consistent results can be used for comparison purposes.

Benchmark Tests Run

Memory Benchmarks

SiSoft Sandra 2002

Content Based

- Content Creation Winstone 2002
- Business Winstone 2001
- Winbench 99 (Disk Winmarks)

Graphics/Rendering

- Quake 3 Demo 001
- DroneZ GF2/Ultra 640x480x32 (70hz)
- 3Dmark2001SE (1024x768x32)
- Lightwave 3D v.7.0b (Skull head, Radiosity tests)

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