Gigabyte 8SG667 SiS 648 Mainboard Review (4)
Overclocker 3 Oct 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.

Some interest results here. As our Corsair XMS3200 is a CAS 2.5 module, we can't get it to run at CAS 2 at all. If you noticed the results, running it at DDR333 CAS 2, 2-2-5 is faster than running it at DDR400 CAS 2.5,3-3-6. Well DDR400 unofficially works here but it is very stable as it is running in DDR400 specs (DDR400,CAS 2.5, 3-3-6).

The results of CCWS2002 is quite impressive compared to other SiS 648 boards including the reference board. 

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