EPoX 8RDA3+ nForce2 Mainboard Review (2)
Bluetooth 17th June 2003

Benchmarking

Systems Compared

SiS 748 Series

• ASrock K7S8X-E

• SiS 748 Reference Board

• AMD AXP3200+
• 1x512M Corsair XMS3500C2
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor D740X-6L 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• Tyan Radeon 9700Pro / ATi Catalyst 3.2 (7.84)
• Windows XP
• SiS 1.16 AGP, SiS IDE 2.04

nForce2 Series

• EPoX 8RDA3+

• Gigabyte 7NNXP

• AMD AXP3200+
• 2x256M Corsair TWINX512-2700LLPT
• ThermalTake heatsink/fan
• Maxtor D740X-6L 40G ATA133 7200RPM
• Tyan Radeon 9700Pro / ATi Catalyst 3.2 (7.84)
• Windows XP
• nVIDIA nForce2 Unified Driver 2.03

All above setup are set to operate with an AGP aperture size of 128MB so that consistent results can be used for comparison purposes.

Benchmark Tests Run

Memory Benchmarks

- SiSoft Sandra 2003 Memory Benchmarks

Content Based

- Content Creation Winstone 2002
- Business Winstone 2001

Graphics/Rendering

- Quake 3 Demo 001 (1024x768x32)
- 3Dmark2001SE (1024x768x32)
- 3DMark2003 (1024x768x32)
- Comanche4 (1024x768x32)
- Code Creatures Benchmark Pro (1024x768x32)

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