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.

In our test, we run the 3.0 Ghz (P4 800MHZ) processor at 200Mhz FSB and with 2x256M Corsair DDR333 module at DDR400, CAS 2, 5-2-2 on the Springdale/Canterwood boards. For stability, we set the voltage to 2.7v for the DDR. On the ABIT BH7 (i845PE), we ran it using a single stick of 512M Corsair XMS3500C2 at CAS 2, 5-2-2. PAT is enabled by default on all Canterwood boards. For our SiS 648FX ref board, we also used the Corsair XMS3500C2 RAM running at CAS 2, 5-2-2.

Dual Channel versus Single Channel. Of course Dual Channel will exhibit a better memory performance in this benchmark. Considering the average Springdale board which 648FX takes aim at scores 4414/4424 compared to SiS 648FX at 3057/3058. If you look at the charts, it is not difficult to see that the SiS 648FX scores similarly to the 845PE ABIT BH7. Does that mean the performance would be similar to a 845PE chipset or will it be better than 865PE ? Let's take a look at the benchmark results in the following pages.