Gigabyte 技嘉 K8VNXP VIA K8T800 Mainboard Review (5)
Bluetooth 12 Sept 2003

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.

It is not difficult to analyse from the graph that the dual channel P4 3.0C with ABIT IS7-G performs better than the A64 3200+ with a single channel DDR400. The scores are quite close with Gigabyte and ALi M1687 ref scoring 377fps. To my surprise, the VIA based Gigabyte K8VNXP only scored 370.3fps. To ensure that it is not any other problems, we reinstalled WinXP on another partition, reinstalled the graphics drivers and we still get at the fastest 370.6fps. This is kind of strange as the it seems that the D3D results are quite consistent but Q3 seems to be slightly slower than the two other boards. Could this be due to the VLink ?

In 3DMark2001SE Build 330, we get a consistent score a few hundred points higher than the Dual Channel K7 monsters. Just imagine if it is a dual channel design, wouldn't that be impressive? The three boards are not too far from one another. Well, the scores are not coincidence, It just scored 17380 3DMarks just like the ALi Ref board.

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