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Benchmarks
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Full System Tests... |
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MadOnion's
PCMark2002Pro:
One of the newest and more
versatile benchmarking programs on the market is MadOnion's
PCMark2002Pro. PCMark2002Pro runs a 10 minute battery
of tests that gauges the three most important components of
a computer system: CPU, Memory, and Hard Drive performance.
We're going to kick things off with the "CPU Score."
It was with this test we
first noticed that the rumors of the Soyo KT333 Dragon
Ultra falling behind the competition appeared to be
fact. With the original BIOS installed, the Dragon Ultra
fell short of the Abit KX7-333R.
But take a look at how the performance jumped with the
"Release Candidate" BIOS installed. Could it be true
that all we needed was a BIOS update to make the Dragon
Ultra a KT333 leader? How would the Memory and Hard
drive performance fare?
When it comes to memory
performance, the KX7-333R took the lead versus the Soyo
Dragon Ultra and current BIOS.
Once again, a little update and the Dragon took the lead
again.
Here we see a 43 point drop in
hard drive performance after the BIOS update, lagging quite
a bit behind the Abit board. The question is, how will
such a difference in hard drive scores affect the remainder
of our tests? Well, to help us answer that question we
launched some of the more intense, "real world" tests
available, Content Creation Winstone and Business Winstone.
Let's get to it!
Content Creation, Business
Winstone & Conclusion
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