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Benchmarks
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Full System Tests... |
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MadOnion's
PCMark2002Pro:
One of the quickest
applications available for determining a system's overall
performance is PCMark2002. PcMark2002 is an excellent
tool for gauging the performance and ability of the three
most important components of a system, CPU, Memory and Hard
Drive.
When it came to CPU performance,
the Abit board had the advantage over the Shuttle, although it was a close
race. Both the Abit and Shuttle test systems put up
good scores with the CPU Performance Module.
Next we'll take a look at the overall memory performance of
the two boards.
Once again we have to give the
edge to the Abit SR7-8X with an average gain of 121 points
over the Shuttle board. When we kicked the memory
speed up to 400MHz., the Abit system jumped another 233
points to 5276. Once again, the test did not reflect an
increase in score that we would expect to see with a 20%
increase in memory bandwidth. Instead we saw an
increase in score of 4.6%.
Next up...Hard drive
performance.
Here we saw wide variations in
score with each system. The Shuttle AS45GT/R took the
top spot, topping the Abit SR7-8X by almost 40 points.
It was strange to see that the hard drive performance
actually dropped when we increased the memory to 400MHz. DDR.
Perhaps it had something to do with the installation of
Windows for each test, each test was run
on separate installations due to all the problems we
encountered with the overclocking process. It's hard
to say why there is a decline in score of almost 40 points,
but we have to report what we saw.
Next we will really put the
systems to the test with a couple of popular benchmarking
applications from the folks at eTestingLabs.
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Winstone & Conclusion
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