System CLK/Sandra XI - ASUS M2A-VM HDMI Review

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System CLK/Sandra XI - ASUS M2A-VM HDMI Review
Bluetooth 2 Apr 2007

Benchmarks

In this test, we measured the CLK used by the boards. Both boards are set to run in SPD mode of the modules which is rated CAS 5, 5-5-15, 2T. The ECS RS485-M-M and SIS 771 reference board runs on 200.00MHz on the dot. The EPoX EP-AT690 Pro runs at 200.7MHz while the ECS AMD 690GM-M2, Jetway M2A692-GDG and ASUS M2A-VM HDMI all runs at default 200.00Mhz.

With that in mind, we take a look at the memory benchmark scores using Sandra XI. 128M of shared memory is in use. We can see that the EPoX EP-AT690 Pro scores quite similarly to the older ATi RS485M-M board. The NVIDIA series boards seems to have an edge over the rest in this test. The SiS 771 graphics core seems to eat a lot more into the memory bandwidth. The Jetway M2A692-GDG seems to be on par with the EpoX EP-AT690 Pro.

We used the System drv 7.33 and tested the Catalyst 7.3 which was released a few days ago. Notice the difference in memory scores. This is somewhat quite strange. I suspect the Catalyst driver might have made some changes. Will this affect other benchmarks. Lets read on.

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