Gigabyte 技嘉 K8VNXP VIA K8T800 Mainboard Review (3)

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Gigabyte 技嘉 K8VNXP VIA K8T800 Mainboard Review (3)
Bluetooth 12 Sept 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 and DFI is at 200.47. Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 is at 200.9Mhz, DFI 748-AL is at a very exact 200.45MHz. The M1687 Reference Board runs exactly at 200.00MHz FSB. Gigabyte K8NNXP runs at 201 (old BIOS with 3100+) and 200MHz (new BIOS with 3200+). The GA-K8VNXP also runs at 200.00MHz FSB.

In the comparison, 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. Looking at the benchmarks, it can be seen that Dual Channel DDR400 does have a better memory bandwidth over the single channel DDR 400.

Our single channel DDR400 K8 ALi Ref board scores a high of 3005/3003 with the old BIOS (based on the previous ALi report). We updated the BIOS and tested it with a 3200+ processor and we got 3077/3077. A check with the old CPU scores around the same.

Gigabyte K8NNXP scores 3075/3075 in this test with a 3200+ but with the old BIOS which was default to 201MHz, it scored 3081/3082.

Although the memory controller embedded within the CPU. The memory benchmark scores still varies base on the patches and errata made to the BIOS. As we can see, Gigabyte K8VNXP has a lower score of 3062/3062 compared to the other two boards.

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