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| | EPoX 8K3A+
Review (6)
Overclocker 12 Mar 2002
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
Quake3 Arena results
Further investigation was done based on two
popular gaming software Quake3 Arena. The following results are
tabulated for reference.
AthlonXP1500+
Update : We
benchmark the scores again using the latest 25 Mar 2002 BIOS. Old scores are in
brackets. We see a jump of 7 ~ 10 fps increase with this new BIOS making it on
par with the Shuttle AK35GTR v2.2.
We benchmark the board using a MSI Geforce3 Ti200
graphics card with the latest detonator 21.83 drivers. Have a close look at the
results and see how fast is the EPoX 8K3A+ in terms of real OpenGL tests.
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Iwill
XP333 v2.0 CAS2 Fast |
EPoX
8K3a+ DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
EPoX
8K3A+ DDR333 CAS 2, 1T cmd |
Shuttle
AK35GRR v2.2 DDR333 CAS 2, 1T cmd |
MSI
KT3 Ultra DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
MSI
KT3 Ultra DDR333 CAS 2, 1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VRXP DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VRXP DDR333 CAS 2,2T cmd |
Shuttle
AK35gtr CAS 2,1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VTXH+ CAS 2,1T cmd |
ABIT
KR7A CAS 2,1T cmd, Ultra |
EPoX
8KHA+ CAS2 1T cmd |
ECS
K7S6A Ultra timings |
Leadtek
7350KDA Ultra timings |
Quake3
Demo1
Fastest |
240.2fps |
251.8
(241.7)fps |
258.9
(246.2)fps |
259.9fps |
240.9fps |
246.0fps |
244.6fps |
246.9fps |
246.6fps |
250.8fps |
243.0fps |
243.7fps |
234.9
(233.8) |
239.2fps |
Quake3
Demo1 Hi
Quality |
200.2fps |
208
(202.0)fps |
213.2
(205.1)fps |
214.1fps |
205.1fps |
207.4fps |
207.2fps |
206.7fps |
205.0fps |
204.3fps |
203.2fps |
203.5fps |
198.4
(188.2) |
200.3fps |
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Iwill
XP333 v2.0 CAS2 Fast |
EPoX
8K3A+
DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
EPoX
8K3A+ DDR333 CAS 2,1T cmd |
Shuttle
AK35GTR v2.2 DDR 333 CAS 2,1T cmd |
MSI
KT3 Ultra
DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
MSI
KT3 Ultra DDR333 CAS 2,1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VRXP DDR266 CAS 2,1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VRXP DDR333 CAS 2,2T cmd |
Shuttle
AK35gtr CAS 2,1T cmd |
Gigabyte
7VTXH+ CAS 2,1T cmd |
ABIT
KR7A CAS 2,1T cmd, Ultra |
EPoX
8KHA+ CAS2 1T cmd |
ECS
K7S6A Ultra timings |
Leadtek
7350KDA Ultra timings |
Quake3
Demo2 Fastest |
239.5fps |
254.4
(243.9)fps |
261.5
(248.1)fps |
262.2fps |
242.8fps |
252.1.fps |
250.5fps |
252.0.fps |
250.4fps |
252.8.fps |
247.6fps |
247.9fps |
237.8
(236.3) |
241.4fps |
Quake3
Demo2 HiQuality |
209.4fps |
215.7
(209.2)fps |
221.5
(212.7)fps |
222.3fps |
213.4fps |
216.6fps |
215.2fps |
215.2fps |
213.3fps |
214.3fps |
211.7fps |
212.5fps |
205.1
(189.7) |
207.4fps |
Observing the scores, we confirmed that
something is definitely not very right about the BIOS in terms of 3D
performance. Looking at the results, 8K3A+ is surprisingly low in results
compared to the other 2 KT333 boards. In certain cases, the benchmark results is
even slower than some of the KT266A boards.
*Q3 results are recorded based on Fastest
(512x384x16bots)
and Hi-Quality (800x600x32bits)
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 = 133.38Mhz
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
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