ABIT BD7-II RAID i845E Review (4)
Overclocker 24 May 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.

Among all the i845E boards, ABIT BD7-II's CCWS2002 result of 38.2 is probably one of the highest. As we compare the results, we have to also consider the FSB of the other boards. Although MSI 845E Max2 scores the highest, it was running a default of 134.9mhz which is almost 2mhz higher than most of the boards. 

From the chart, we can also deduce that the ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX) is very fast when it is running at Async DDR333 mode.

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