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Benchmarks
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DirectX |
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Direct X with MadOnion's 3DMark2001SE:
The next test we ran was the
ever popular DirectX benchmark, 3DMark2001SE (Build 330).
We ran the benchmark at the default settings to show how the
system performed with DirectX applications.
The KT4 Ultra topped the
KX7-333R by 21 points at the default settings, once again
showing a very close race. Once we overclocked the
system, we gained an additional 775 points, an increase just
shy of 8%. With a modest increase in bus speed, the
gains were quite nice with the KT4 Ultra.
Now we'll see how the system
handles some OpenGL tests.
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Benchmarks
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OpenGL |
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Quake 3:
You may call it "The Benchmark
That Just Won't Die", but the Quake 3 Timedemo is still
capable of taxing today's video cards to some degree.
Besides, many of us are so used to seeing these scores, we
can tell a good score from a bad without looking at a
comparison system at all.
With the Quake 3 Timedemo
DEMO004, both systems were virtually a dead heat with the
Abit system squeezing out enough juice to top the KT4 by a
mere 1FPS. With the system overclocked, we saw an even
greater gain than with 3DMark2001SE, adding an additional
11% overall.
Now that we've gotten a good
idea of gaming performance with the MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR, let's get
back to business and give the venerable Winstones a stab at
the MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR.
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Benchmarks
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Content Creation 2002 |
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Content
Creation Winstone 2002: Content
Creation Winstone 2002 is a benchmarking program that
measures a PC's overall performance when running multimedia
intensive programs. Some of the applications it uses
to determine a Content Creation 2002 rating are:
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Adobe
Photoshop 6.0.1
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Adobe
Premiere 6.0
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Macromedia
Director 8.5
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Macromedia
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
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Microsoft
Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055
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Netscape
Navigator 6/6.01
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Sonic
Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c (build 184)
Running at 333MHz., the MSI KT4
held a solid lead over the Abit KX7-333R, besting it by over
2.4 points. Once we increased the memory to 400MHz. we
were surprised to find that the score remained relatively
unchanged. It seems that Content Creation 2002 is not
going to benefit tremendously with a nominal increase in
memory bandwidth. We wonder if this will hold true
with Business Winstone too?
More Winstones and Conclusion
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