SiSoftware Sandra 2004

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

Just mere percentage points separate the P4C800 from the IC7, with the IC7-MAX3 getting the nod at all clock speeds. You'll be hard pressed to notice this though in day-to-day operations.

Memory Benchmark

What is surprising here is that the ASUS board fared pretty well against the Game Accelerator enabled IC7. I half expected the IC7 to blow ASUS away here, but this was far from being the case.

PC Mark 2002

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.

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

Not much difference here again, but at 3GHz, the IC7 leads by almost two seconds in its calculation time.

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