PiFast

A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10000000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.

Lower is Better

At 2.4GHz, both IC7 boards lead the way, with the IC7-MAX3 holding a slight edge. Credit to ABIT's superior memory timing options.

TMPGEnc MPEG Encoding

Video editing is a taxing chore, and we'll be testing the IC7-MAX3 using TMPGEnc 2.512 to encode a 7.78MB, 1:30 movie trailer to a 24FPS MPG file. Note that lower scores are better.

Lower is Better

Dead even between the boards, though this is likely more the result of us using a small MPG file. We'll be looking into updating this test in the near future.

Unreal Tournament 2003 @ 640

UT2K3 s a real system killer, and can bring many systems to its knees. We used the , which are excellent tools in testing various resolutions and detail levels. We selected the CPU test, which uses the dm-inferno map.

The IC7 boards simply blow the P4C800 away here, and the IC7-MAX3 manages a small 2 frame per second lead over the IC7. Again, the Game Accelerator seems to be the deciding factor here.

Splinter Cell @ 640

New to our test bench is UbiSoft's 3rd person action game, Splinter Cell. We used the Beyond3D demo, and ran the demo at 640x480 at the lowest detail levels.

A bit closer in Splinter Cell than it was with UT2003, but the ASUS board trails nonetheless by a couple frames per second.

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