Benchmark System
| CPU: |
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ |
| Motherboard: |
MSI 745Ultra
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Chaintech 7NIF2
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| Memory: |
1 - 256MB Corair PC3200, 1 - 256MB OCZ PC3500 |
| Hard Drives: |
4.3GB Quantum 5400RPM, 40GB Maxtor 7200RPM (D740X)
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| Video Card: |
Matrox Parhelia 128MB - (200MHz/250MHz) |
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nForce 2 IGP 64 MB - (200MHz/166MHz) |
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MSI 8888 64MB - (275MHz/257MHz) |
| Operating System: |
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 3 |
| Drivers: |
Parhelia 1.2.0.31 |
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nForce 2.03 driver pack |
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MSI 8888 - 43.45 |
| Other Cards: |
D-Link 538TX NIC, Firewire card |
| Cooler: |
AMD 1800+ Retail Heatsink |
| Case: |
InWin Q500 |
| Power Supply: |
Enermax EG365P-VE 350Watts |
| Software: |
Fraps 1.9c |
| Direct X Benchmarks: |
Unreal Tournament 2003 (HardOCP software - using dm-antalus) |
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Unreal Tournament 2003 (HardOCP software - CPU test) |
| OpenGL Benchmarks: |
Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (timedemo) |
| Other Benchmarks: |
VirtualDub 1.4.10 |
DivX 5.03 |
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Truespace 4.2 |
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DUMeter 3.03 Build 110 |
All tests were run at 1024*768 with all settings at maximum except antialiasing and ansiotropic filtering were not enabled. 1600*1200 was run without ansiotropic filtering and AA enabled. All tests were run 3 times with the highest of the closest two frame rates being used. All frame rates were graphed using Fraps 1.9 to measure the frame rate each second, as seen in the Parhelia review mentioned previously.
The Truespace benchmark used the same process mentioned in my previous article using the following settings, the image was then rendered to 1600*1200. The DivX tests took the video from the DVD of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (NSTC) which equaled 8555 frames without any audio being encoded. For the DUMeter tests, we took about 3GB of files (about 3000 files) ranging in size from a couple of KB's to a couple of hundred MB's. We sent the data to and from the system using, in the case of the network cards, a 10/100 switch and the master network card was the Gigabit NIC on the MSI 845PE (reviewed by Hubert). So let us see how this motherboard performs compared to other motherboards and other video cards.
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