Gigabyte 7NNXP nForce2 Mainboard Review (3)

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Gigabyte 7NNXP nForce2 Mainboard (3)
Bluetooth 19th June 2003

Benchmarking

Before we benchmark, we document the FSB the board is running at. The SiS 748 reference board is a bit on the high side. Do bear that in mind when comparing results of the boards as a higher FSB usually will impact the benchmarks in one way or another. ASrock K7S8X-E is registered at 200.97MHz and the EPoX 8RDA3+ is at 200.46 MHz. Gigabyte 7NNXP runs at 200.45MHz.

In the comparison, the ASRock K7S8X-E and SiS 748 Reference board is running 1 x 512M Corsair XMS3500C2 Stick at CAS 2, 5-2-2 while the EPoX 8RDA3+ is running 2 x 256M Corsair TWINX512-2700LLPT at CAS 2, 5-2-2. Looking at the benchmarks, it can be seen that Dual Channel DDR400 does have a better memory bandwidth over the single channel DDR 400.

The Gigabyte 7NNXP is slightly behind the EPoX 8RDA3+ and we believe that the Gigabyte BIOS can be tuned up a bit more to match the less than 0.6% of difference. We will see if this will affect the final results in other benchmarks in the next pages.

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