ECS N2U400-A nForce2 Mainboard Review (5)
Bluetooth 2 Jan 2004

Benchmarking

We checked out Q3 running Demo001 at 1024x768x32 Hi-Quality. In this category, the SIS 748; a single channel DDR solution lost to the nForce2 platform. This is to be expected. The difference between the two boards is very minimal. It is only 0.2 fps which is hardly noticeable. In fact, what would happen if the FSB was 200.5, it would have got similar or high results. In all tests, Tyan Radeon 9700Pro is used and is running in 8X mode with Catalyst 3.2 (7.84) drivers for all boards tested.

The score is 325fps which is slower than most NF2 boards we tested. This could be due to the lower ram timings used in the test. Only if we are able to increase vDIMM to above 2.7v, we would not be able to compare it at CAS 2, 5-2-2. IN fact we noticed that the 2nd and 3rd parameter makes a lot of difference to performance when set to 2.

In 3DMark2001SE Build 330, the results of 15971 is slightly slower than those obtained on the 3 other nF2 boards. There is no doubt that the score is faster than most of the SIS 748 and KT600 boards tested.

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