ASUS A7N8X nForce2 Mainboard Review  (2)
Overclocker 27 Oct 2002

Benchmarking

Systems Compared

nVIDIA nForce2 series

• ASUS A7N8X nForce2 BIOS 1015.003 at DDR333, dual DDR333, dual DDR400

VIA KT400 series

• EPoX 8K9A2+ VIA KT400 BIOS dtd 22 Oct 2002 (beta)
• ABIT AT7 Max2 VIA KT400 BIOS dtd 12 Aug 2002
• Gigabyte 7VAXP VIA KT400 Mainboard 
• AMD AXP 1900+
• Windows 2000 with SP2
• VIA 4 in 1 4.43
• 1 x 512MB Corsair XMS3200 CAS 2.5 DDR400
• ABIT Siluro GF4 Ti4200 / Detonator 40.41
• Maxtor 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• Windows 2000 + SP2
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan

The following tests are run at least 3 times to obtain a sustain score. We ran in DDR333 mode. The ram timing settings at DDR333 are set at CAS 2, 2-2-5. 

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 (800x600x32)
- 3Dmark2001SE Build 330 (1024x768x32)
- Comanche 4 (1024x768x32)
- CodeCreatures Benchmark Pro (1024x768x32)

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