Test
System:
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard, 2GB (2x1GB in Dual DDR Mode)
Patriot PC4300, AMD Opteron 148 (2.2GHz Stock), HIS X1600Pro IceQ2-Turbo,
Western Digital 250GB, 8MB buffer, 7200 RPM, SATA-II Drive, Windows
XP SP2
I
will be comparing the Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe to a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9,
2GB (2x1GB in Dual DDR Mode) Patriot PC4300, AMD Opteron 148 (2.2GHz
Stock), HIS X1600Pro IceQ2-Turbo, Samsung 250GB, 8MB buffer, 7200
RPM, SATA-II Drive, Windows XP SP2
As
you can see, the memory and CPU are identical, in fact, they are
physically the same. I swapped them from one another once testing
was completed, there should be no bias from the CPU or memory
perspective in these results.
Testing
Time
for the testing phase, all tests are run 3 times and results are
then averaged (unless otherwise noted). VL’s testing suite includes
the following:
SiSoft
Sandra 2007 - Our standard synthetic benchmark
suite, updated to version 2007. While it doesn't provide real-world
information, it does give us a base for the rest of the tests.
PiFast
- A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance
is PiFast version 4.3, 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.
TMPGEnc
2.521 - We used an Animatrix
file, titled The Second Renaissance Part 1, and a WAV created
from VirtualDub. The movie was then converted it into a DVD compliant
MPEG-2 file with a bitrate of 5000. Times are in minutes:seconds,
and lower is better.
HD
Tach - Similar to SiSoft in that it does not
necessarily give us real world indication of performance but does
allow for baseline testing and efficiency reports of CPU utilization
at maximum hard drive transfer rates.
SiSoft
Sandra 2007 - CPU Arithmetic
SiSoft
Sandra 2007 - Multimedia
SiSoft
Sandra 2007 - Memory
These
result's should be close, it is the same processor and memory,
physically, on both motherboards. Interestingly enough, the Gigabyte
does take each test by ever so slight a margin.
PiFast
Once again, same processor and memory, this should be a no brainer
and once again, less the 0.25 second separation on 3 separate
runs. However, the slight advantage still points at the nF4.
TMPGEnc
MPEG Encoding
With SSE3 built into the AMD cores, we are seeing the times drop
significantly on these scores. Encoding adds hard drive performance
as well as CPU / Memory functionality. As we can see by the results,
the Asus is now outperforming the Gigabyte, not by just a little
bit mind you, this is very significant.
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