Gigabyte 7S748-L SiS 748 Mainboard Review (3)

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Gigabyte 7S748-L SiS 748 Mainboard Review (3)
Bluetooth 29 Oct 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. From the 4 SiS 748 boards tested, the SiS ref board seems to be overclocked quite a bit at 201.9 MHz. The few other SiS 748 boards runs at 200.97, 200.45. The Gigabyte 7S748-L is default at 200.97MHz.

In the comparison, 7S748-L, DFI 748-AL, ASRock K7S8X-E and SiS 748 Reference board is running 1 x 512M Corsair XMS3500C2 Stick at CAS 2, 5-2-2. The Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 runs CAS 2, 6-2-2. EPoX 8RDA3+ is running 2 x 256M Corsair TWINX512-2700LLPT at CAS 2, 5-2-2.

In our tests, we noticed that the memory benchmarks would be improved if we enabled the MQA early push. The problem is that if it is enabled and Tras is set to 7 or below e.g., 5,6 or 7, system will hang. In fact, this is apparent on all SiS 748 boards with Corsair XMS3500c2 module. If you are experiencing random hangs with aggressive timings, try disabling MQA early push and set it to Normal helps. You can check out cheepomentweak for that.

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