EPoX 4G4A+ i845G Review (4)
Overclocker 20 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.

EPoX 4G4A+ performs quite well running in DDR333 agressive mode making it one of faster boards around. Although it is fast, it still lags behind the SIS645DX by a bit if we compare neck to neck. If we were to compare it with Intel D845GBV which only supports DDR266 (845G), it scores 37.5 compared to ASUS P4S533 (DDR266) at 37.4. It looks like the 845G is not bad at all.

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