System Setup and Benchmark Suite
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Our testing suite and style remains the same as in our Asus K8V Deluxe review, so I’ll simply show the same results here:It’s always interesting to note how long it has been since the base of our motherboard testing suite has stayed the same when it comes to hardware. We are still using the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card, and still using the Western Digital 40 GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache hard drives. Our memory has been Corsair exclusive for some time, and with this review we will introduce testing with Kingston HyperX as well.
Our benchmark suite has been evolving as well with the last few reviews. We have added X2 to our gaming benchmarks and XMPEG/DivX video file conversion to our application benchmarks. We are still using UT2K3 and Quake III as well as the entire Winstone suite of benchmarks. Science Mark 2.0 Beta is also a recent addition to replace the aging ScienceMark 1 benchmark and to update it for more modern scientific study. Finally, CineBench 2003 has been added as well to our Professional graphics testing suite.
| CPU | 1 x 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor |
| Motherboards |
Asus K8V Deluxe K8T800 MSI K8T Neo-FISR2 K8T800 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro XMS4000 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB 7200 RPM WD EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.7 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
| CPU | 1 x 2.20 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Processor |
| Motherboards | Abit NF7-S nForce2 Ultra 400 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro XMS4000 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB 7200 RPM WD EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.7 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
| CPU | 1 x 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 Processor (HyperThreading) |
| Motherboards | Chaintech 9CJS Intel 875 Chipset Motherboard |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro XMS4000 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB 7200 RPM WD EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.7 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
Tests:
Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament 2K3
X2: The Threat
PCMark 2002
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
AIDA32
Cachemem
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Content Creation Winstone 2003
Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2002
SPECviewperf 7.1
CineBench 2003
ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
