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Using the latest
version of Business Winstone 2004 and Content Creation
Winstone 2004, let's get a feel for real desktop performance
from these motherboards. For default test settings we
ran our 2800+ CPU using a 10.5X multiplier and a front side
bus of 200 MHz giving us 2.1 GHz. This is obviously
running our 2800+ at a 3000+ setting, allowing us to take
advantage of the full 400MHz System Bus bandwidth of the
nForce 2 Ultra 400 chipset.
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Business and Content Creation Winstone 2004 |
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Desktop Application Performance |
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Applications
used in the Business Winstone 2004 tests include:
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Microsoft®
Access 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
Excel 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
FrontPage 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
Outlook 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
PowerPoint 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
Project 2002 SP-2
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Microsoft®
Word 2002 SP-2
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WinZip® 8.1
SR-1
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Norton
Antivirus? Professional Edition 2003
Applications
used in the Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests include:
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Adobe®
Photoshop® 7.0.1
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Adobe®
Premiere® 6.50
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Macromedia®
Director MX 9.0
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Macromedia®
Dreamweaver MX 6.1
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Microsoft®
Windows Media? Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
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NewTek's
LightWave® 3D 7.5b
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Steinberg?
WaveLab? 4.0f
It's no surprise
to see that both motherboards managed nearly identical
scores in these benchmarks, since they are running at the
same settings and because the Winstone tests are very hard
disk intensive. We have a 7200 RPM Seagate 40GB EIDE
drive with an 8MB buffer hooked up for these tests, so we're
probably seeing the bottleneck there more than any other
component in the system. Next up in our benchmarking
queue, we have some high end workstation metrics using
SPECViewperf and more overall system measurements using
Futuremark's PCMark 2004.
SPECViewperf and PCMark 2004
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