Foxconn's WinFast 755FXK8AA-8EKRS
Business & Content Creation Winstones
Synthetic benchmarks and games only tell part of the performance story, so we tested the Foxconn WinFast 755FX8KAA-8EKRS in some "real-world" scenarios, as well. For our first set of real-world tests, we did some benchmarking with PC Magazine's Business Winstone 2004 suite, followed by the more demanding Content Creation Winstone 2004 suite.
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The PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004 test utilizes the following applications in its benchmark:
- Microsoft Access 2002
- Microsoft Excel 2002
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002
- Microsoft Outlook 2002
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
- Microsoft Project 2002
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Norton Antivirus Professional Edition 2003
- WinZip 8.1
NVIDIA powered Athlon motherboards have consistently finished ahead of their competition in the Business Winstone 2004 benchmark. The 755FX8KAA-8EKRS wasn't quite able to catch the NF3 powered boards here, but it did sneak passed the VIA K8T800 Pro based K8T Neo2-FIR.
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The PC Magazine Content Creation Winstone 2004 test utilizes the following applications in its benchmark:
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
- Adobe Premiere 6.50
- Macromedia Director MX 9.0
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
- Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
- NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
- Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f
The SiS755FX powered WinFast 755FX8KAA-8EKRS was able to dethrone the nForce 3 based motherboards in the Content Creation 2004 benchmark. With a final score of 35.9, only .2 points higher than the Editor's Choice winning MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, the 755FX8KAA-8EKRS didn't dominate, but outpacing an nForce 3 Ultra in either Winstone test is no small feat.
