Foxconn's WinFast 755FXK8AA-8EKRS

Name: Foxconn's WinFast 755FXK8AA-8EKRS - Page 8
Brand: Foxconn's

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, January 05, 2005, 08:00 AM EDT

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.

Business & Content Creation Winstones

Real-World Application Performance

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.

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.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com