ABIT NF7-S v1.2 nForce Mainboard (3)

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ABIT NF7-S v1.2 nForce2 Mainboard (3)
Overclocker 5 Apr 2003

Benchmarking

Memory Benchmarks (fsb:166, AXP2700+)

SiSoft Sandra 2002

The infamous SiSoft Sandra 2002 is used to test out the memory benchmarks, CPU Arithmetic and Multimedia benchmarks. All the systems are tweak to it's maximum possible settings of CAS 2, 2-2-5 (except ASrock which we can't tune)

All boards running in SYNC DDR333 (166/166) otherwise specified. The FSB of the various boards are :

Shuttle MN31N : 167.05Mhz
ABIT NF7-S v1.2 : 166.36Mhz
Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra : 166.92Mhz
AOpen AK79G Max : 167.04Mhz
ASROCK K7S8X : 166.64Mhz
ECS L7S7A2 : 166.65Mhz
SiS 746FX Ref board : 168.2Mhz
EPoX 8RDA+ : 167.05Mhz
ABIT KD7 : 166.88Mhz

From the chart, we can see from the chart below that the 4 top memory performers are all nForce2 boards followed by KT400A and SiS 746/746FX. In fact, the fsb of the ABIT board is slightly lower than the rest of the nForce2 boards, this might lead to slightly lower performance in other categories. Let's see how it will affect overall system performance in other benchmarks.

In the CPU Multimedia tests, the ABIT NF7-S doesn't seem to perform as good as the AOPEN and EPoX equivalent. This is quite surprising. Could this be due to the fsb of 166.36?

In CPU Arithmetic, the benchmarks shows that the ABIT NF7-S doesn't seem to perform very well compared to the rest of the boards.

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