EPoX 8K3A+ Review (2)

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EPoX 8K3A+ Review (2)
Overclocker 12 Mar 2002

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Benchmarking

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

Test System:

AMD AthlonXP 1500+ and Thermoengine heatsink/fan
IBM 15G 7200RPM ATA100 HD
AOPEN 40X CDROM
MSI Geforce3 Ti200 Graphics card
Nanya DDR333 256MB DDR
Channelwell 375W AMD Approved PSU

We used the BIOS supplied with the mainboard and tested the board in DDR266 and DDR333. We took the readings off WCPUID and noticed that at both modes, the WCPUID reveals 133.64Mhz FSB. The system runs CAS 2 1T cmd Ultra for both DDR266 and DDR333 mode.

WCPUID Screen Shot

ZD Winbench99 and CC Winstone 2000 scores

Summary

Based on the AthlonXP1500+

Update : We rebenchmark the system using the latest 25 Mar 2002 BIOS (official 26Mar2002 BIOS is the same) which seems to have corrected the performance of this board. Tabulated are the results based on the new BIOS. The results in brackets below are the old results based on 12 March 2002 BIOS. We also included results for Shuttle AK35GTR v2.2. With the new BIOS, the performance of CCWinstone2000 dropped from 51.2 to 50.2 at DDR333 async mode.

Looks like EPoX 8K3A+ has better performance in terms of Content Creation. A score of 51.2 at Ultra Cas2 1T cmd is really impressive. To date, it has the best scores. The results were worse; scoring 48 in the initial BIOS when we received the board. The BIOS we used for this test is dated 12 Mar 2002.

	EPoX 8K3A+ 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR266	EPoX 8K3A+ 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR333	Shuttle AK35GTR v2.2 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR333	MSI KT3 Ultra ARU 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR266	MSI KT3 Ultra ARU 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR333	Gigabyte 7VRXP 1T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR266	Gigabyte 7VRXP 2T cmd, Cas2, Ultra DDR333	Shuttle Ak35GTR 1T cmd Cas 2	Gigabyte 7VTXH+ 1T cmd, Cas2	ABIT KR7A RAID CAS2, 1Tcmd,CPU Fast Command decode Ultra	EPoX 8KTA+ Cas2,1T CMD	Shuttle AK31 v3.1 Peformance Defaults	MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU High Performance Defaults
CC Winstone2000	50.0 (50.0)	50.2 (51.2)	50.5	48.7	49.5	50.2	49.7	49.8	49.8	49.1	48	48	46.2
CPUMark99	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	128	126	125	126
FPUmark99	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7290	7300	7270	7290
Business Disk Winmark	12700 (10800)	13100 (13000)	12800	13000	12900	13100	13200	8080	13330	6930	5660	7410	7190
High End Disk Winmark	26500 (26700)	26900 (26400)	27200	27500	27600	26800	27300	22800	27400	23100	22500	25700	24400

	Iwill XP333 v2.0 CAS2 Fast	ECS K7S6A Ultra timings	Leadtek 7350KDA Ultra timings	ECS K7S5A Ultra timings
CC Winstone2000	48.5	49.1	46.2	46.1
CPUMark99	124	-	125	123
FPUmark99	7230	-	7240	7260
Business Disk Winmark	6790	7810	6260	8630
High End Disk Winmark	23100	22400	20800	24800

FSB

EPoX 8K3A+ = 133.64Mhz
Shuttle AK35GTR = 133.5Mhz
MSI KT3 Ultra ARU = 133.34Mhz
Gigabyte 7VRXP = 133.9Mhz
ECS K7S6A = 133.9Mhz
Gigabyte 7VTXH+ = 134.2Mhz
ABIT KR7A RAID = 133.39Mhz
EPoX 8KHA+ = 133.64Mhz
Iwill XP333 = 132.68Mhz
Shuttle AK31 v3.1 = 133.5Mhz
MSI K7T266Pro2-RU = 133.8Mhz
Leadtek 7350KDA = 132.77Mhz
ECS K7S5A = 132.77Mhz