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Let's start the testing with
Sandra both at default settings and overclocked, but first
let's take a look at our setup.
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HotHardware Test
Systems |
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NVIDIA and AMD |
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Motherboards:
Chaintech 7NJS and
Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro
Common
Hardware and Software:
AMD 2600+ Athlon Processor
333MHz FSB
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
(Drivers - v.40.72 WHQL)
Seagate 40GB ATA-100
7200RPM Hard Drive
On board sound
WinXP Professional w/ SP1
DirectX 8.1
NVIDIA Unified Driver
Package v2.0
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SiSoft Sandra
and Overclocking Tests |
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Simple performance metrics |
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Sandra Testing:
Default Settings DDR333
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Chaintech 2600+ CPU
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Chaintech 2600+ MM
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Chaintech 2600+ MEM
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Leadtek 2600+ CPU
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Leadtek
2600+ MM
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Leadtek 2600+ MEM
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is showing the advantage. Most notably in the Memory
and CPU scores. The interesting thing to notice, is
that these scores are beating PC800 scores by a decent
amount. If you're astute, you'll note we were using only using PC2700 memory,
with the timings set to 8-4-4-2.5. Obviously a stick
of Corsair PC3500 CAS2 memory is going to get some much
higher scores. Let's take a look at the overclocked
Sandra scores.
Sandra Testing:
Overclocked DDR364
Looks like the tides have
changed in the overclocking category. Chaintech leads
in all scores albeit by a small margin. One thing I'd
like to note on these overclocked tests: I ran both
boards at the 182MHz FSB since that is the frequency that
the Chaintech topped out at. Both boards were set the
CPU vcore to 1.85V and I increased the timing on the memory
to 6-3-3-2.5. As mentioned above, a good stick of
memory will yield even higher scores, since it will be able
to run at better timings and support higher clock rates.
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