中文版 | News | Archives | Reviews | Forum | $ DealsLinks | History | Contact | Privacy

ECS L4S5A Review (2)
Overclocker 22 Mar 2001

 

 

Benchmarking

We conduct the usual tests on the setup with the following configuration :

Test System:

  • Intel Pentium 4 ES 1.5Ghz
  • ThermalTake heatsink/fan
  • IBM 13.5GB 7200 RPM HD
  • MSI Geforce3 Ti200
  • 256MB Nanya DDR333 DDR CAS 2.5
  • IBM 20G ATA100 HD

In our tests, we set the RAM at CAS2 Ultra timings and run the system under 200/333 mode. The following screen shots the WCPUID of the frequency of the FSB. The BIOS we used is ver 1.0c posted on ECS website.

 

ZD Winbench99 and CC Winstone2000

Summary

ECS L4S5A (SiS645 DDR333) ABIT SD7-533r (SiS645 DDR200
/266)
ABIT SD7-533 (SiS645 DDR200
/333)
MSI 645Ultr (SiS645 DDR200
/266)
MSI645
Ultra (SiS645 DDR200
/333)
ECS P4S5A (SiS645 DDR) 200/266 ECS P4S5A (SiS645 DDR) 200/333 SiS645 Ref Board 200/266 SiS645 Ref Board 200/333
Business Disk Winmark 99 7790 5760 5520 6690 5950 5520 5890 5600 5840
High End Disk Winmark 99 21900 20100 19100 19700 19800 20100 18900 22000 19600
CPUMark99 - - - 92.7 92.8 90.7 92.6 90.3 93.3
FPUMark99 - - - 5200 5170 5170 5160 5220 5210
CC Winstone2000 39.5 39.6 41.8 40.1 39.2 39.1 39.5 40.7 41.8

Excellent disk performance scores. In terms of CC Winstone2000, it is still a bit slower than the reference board. It is slightly faster than MSI 645Ultra (DDR333). Could it be because the BIOS is not optimised well enough. I guess so.

MSI 845
Ultra
DDR
200/266
ABIT BD7 RAID (i845
DDR 200/266
DFI 
NB70-
SC (i845
DDR 200/266
ALi ALADDiN
P4 DDR Ref DDR200
/266
Shuttle AV40R (p4x266 ddr) 200/266 2theMax EP-4B2A (i845 + SDR) 100/133 ABIT TH7 II-RAID (i850 + RAMBUS) 100/133
Business Disk Winmark 99 5960 5880  6220 11100 5370 5590 6280
High End Disk Winmark 99 20900 21300 22200 25600 19700 20100 20800
CPUMark99 - - - 91.9 92.5 89.1 92.1
FPUMark99 - - - 5190 5220 5210 5160
CC Winstone2000 42.1 41.5 42.4 40 37.5 36.6 38.5

If we were to compare the results of the SIS645 boards versus the Intel 845D, we can see that in Content Creation category, when the Sis645 runs in DDR333 mode, it is still behind i845D counterpart. If you were to compare neck to neck at DDR266, the i845D is a better performer.

FSB

ECS L4S5A = 99.59Mhz (200/333)
ABIT SD7-533 = 100.9Mhz (200/266), 99.75 (200/333)
ALi ALADDiNP4 Ref = 100.00Mhz
MSI 645Ultra = 100.7Mhz (200/266), 100.1Mhz (200/333)
ECS P4S5A = 100.00Mhz
SiS645 Ref = 100.67 (200/266), 100.9 (200/333)
Shuttle AV40R = 101.25Mhz
2themax EP-4B2A = 101.0Mhz
ABIT TH7-II RAID = 100.00Mhz
DFI NB70-SC = 100.2Mhz
ABIT BD7-RAID = 100.0Mhz
MSI 845Ultra = 100.94Mhz

Next

(C) Copyright 1998-2009 OCWorkbench.com