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The Ziff Davis eTesting Labs suite of Winstone tests measure
over all system performance based on a number of
multi-tasking test runs utilizing the following Business and
Content Creation Apps:
Business Winstone 2001:
- Five Microsoft Office 2000
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 98
- Lotus Notes R5
- NicoMak WinZip
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
Content
Creation Winston 2002:
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
- Adobe Premiere 6.0
- Macromedia Director 8.5
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
UltraDev 4
- Microsoft Windows Media
Encoder 7.01.00.3055
- Netscape Navigator 6/6.01
- Sonic Foundry Sound Forge
5.0c (build 184)
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eTesting Labs Business Winstone 2001 and Content
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Office and
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We decided to
throw in a reference score from the
Abit
BD7-RAID, an i845D based board that we reviewed not long ago.
There are some fairly interesting observations here.
The Abit board does make a very strong showing for the i845D
with the Fire Dragon very close behind. As a matter of
fact, the score differences between the two i845Ds are
insignificant to the end user in terms of real world
performance. On the other hand, we were surprised to
see that the SiS645 based P4S Dragon Ultra actually fell
behind the two i845D boards in the Business test. Our
theory is that the SiS645 leaves a little to be desired in
terms of EIDE drive controller performance. All
Winstone tests are EXTREMELY drive throughput sensitive and
we think the slightly younger, less mature SiS645 chipset
drivers may have something to do with overall hard disk
subsystem performance being slightly behind the i845D.
However, the
increased memory throughput of the SiS645 at DDR333 levels
versus the two i845Ds at DDR266, propel it past the two
Intel based boards, regardless of the disk performance,
forcing it to fight with a bit of a disadvantage. In
the end, for any of these tests, all boards represented here
are within 2% of each other performance wise. These are
excellent scores all around for Soyo's new DDR based P4
boards.
Let's Quake and
wrap this rascal...
Quake
3 and the ratings
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