Shuttle SN41G2 nForce2+IGP SFF Review (3)

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Shuttle SN41G2 nForce2 IGP SFF Review (3)
Overclocker 6 Jan 2002

Benchmarking

Memory Benchmarks

SiSoft Sandra 2002

The infamous SiSoft Sandra 2002 is used to test out the memory benchmarks, CPU Arithmethic and Multimedia benchmarks. All the systems are tweak to it's maximum possible settings of CAS 2, 2-2-5.

All systems are running in Async DDR333 mode except EPoX 8RDA+ in Sync DDR266 Dual Channel (2 x 256M). The FSB of the various boards are :

Shuttle SN41G2 : 133.64Mhz
EPoX 8RDA+ : 133.64Mhz
ABIT KD7 : 133.39Mhz
ECS K7S7AG : 133.34Mhz

There is no doubt that the memory bandwidth of the Shuttle SN41G2 is on par with the Epox 8RDA+ running at the same FSB 133.64Mhz. The nForce2 is the best among all the K7 chipsets available so far as it makes full use of the dual sync memory modules for greater bandwidth. The VIA KT400 based ABIT KD7 is quite close. ECS K7S7AG based on the SiS 746 chipset has a lower memory bandwidth than the two other chipsets.

We retested it with its integrated GF4 MX and you will notice that the bandwidth drops.

Using the same software, we ran the CPU Arithmetic tests and found that the Shuttle SN41G2 has impressive scores of 2777/5546. It seems to be better off in ALU just like the Epox 8RDA+

Over in the CPU Multimedia tests, the Shuttle SN41G2 running with an external graphics MSI GF4 TI4200-8x card outperforms even the Epox 8RDA+. You can see from here that the nForce2 chipsets is not so well tuned for ALU. The ECS K7S7AG seems to outperform the rest in ALU scoring a high of 11045.

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