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ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard: We take a look at ABIT's latest Canterwood based board that includes their OTES technology, as well as packing in some nice goodies. |
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September 18, 2003 |
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SiSoftware Sandra 2003
Although a synthetic benchmark, it's a popular one, freely available if you wish to make comparison benchmarks. We will be testing the CPU, MMX, and memory speeds.
CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
CPU Multimedia Benchmark
Performance is pretty close between the three Canterwood boards, with the IC7-MAX3 taking the speed crown. The overclocked numbers are especially impressive though, cracking the 20 000 mark in MMX Floating Point operations.
Memory Benchmark
Some nice numbers again with the overclocked IC7-MAX3. You can refer to our last IC7 review, but it is in your best interest to run in Dual Channel mode to get the most performance out of your rig. What was surprising here was the ASUS board did pretty well against the Game Accelerator boards.
PC Mark 2002
The same trends here with PC Mark as they were with SiSoft. At the overclocked 250FSB settings, the Game Accelerator makes a far larger impact this time around. as the IC7-MAX3's lead is much more evident, but these are only synthetic benchmarks. Let's move on to real-world benchmarks.
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