ASUS A7N8X nForce2 Mainboard Review  (3)
Overclocker 27 Oct 2002

Benchmarking

Memory Benchmarks

SiSoft Sandra 2002

The infamous SiSoft Sandra 2002 is used to test out the memory benchmarks. All the systems are tweak to it's maximum possible settings of CAS 2, 2-2-5. 

The chart below compares the memory benchmark scores when we run the boards at various CPU/Memory Freq Ratio at DDR333 at CAS 2, 2-2-5 as indicated in the gallery. 

ABIT's AT7 Max2 FSB registers a value of 133.39Mhz on WCPUID. Most manufacturers will "overclock" it to 134.00 so that the benchmarks will look better.

EPOX 8K9A2+ (133.64), Gigabyte 7VAXP (133.9), ABIT AT7Max2 (133.39), ASUS A7N8X (135.29)

From the results, it can be seen that both KT400 boards performs almost identical in memory performance as both are tweak to the maximum possible settings within BIOS. The A7N8X runs very well in the 3 different modes, it can be seen that when it operates at DDR333 (2 x 256), DDR333 (1 x 512), it is on par with KT400s running at DDR333 mode. When we run it at DDR400 (2 x 256), it shows that the memory performance only increase by around 1.5% comparing dual DDR333 vs dual DDR400.

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