Gigabyte 8IXEP i845E 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.

Considering the varying FSB that different manufacturer uses, it is difficult to gauge actual performance unless every manufacturer agrees to run the 133 at the real 133.33 and not 134 or 135.

Gigabyte 8IEXP scores 37.3 which is surprisingly higher than ASUS P4B533-E which is running off at 134.66Mhz. It also overtook the DFI NB73-EA which is running slower at 133.0Mhz. There is no doubt that the Intel D850EMD2 i850E board is still yields the best performance in terms of Content Creation.

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