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PiFast
New to our testbed, but 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.
Lower is Better
The application trend continues, with the ZENITH holding the fort against the MSI solution. Will this trend continue with our gaming tests?
3D Mark 2001SE, 1024x768 - Default
3D Mark is one of those benchmark apps that will eat up as much processing power as it can. Benchmarks were run at default 1024x768, as I felt 640x480 is getting to be fairly pointless.
A 500+ 3D Mark improvement is nothing to scoff at. The ZENITH is clearly faster between the two boards here. Now it is a synthetic test, and more of a video card benchmark, but it's useful to gauge if the CPU or motherboard is bottlenecking the video card.
Unreal Tournament 2003
I've been playing around with the retail version of UT2K3 for quite sometime now, and have been pretty impressed with the graphics. It's a real system killer, and can bring many pre-2002 killer rigs to its knees. We used the scripts written by , which are excellent tools in testing various resolutions and detail levels. We selected the CPU test, which uses the dm-inferno map.
Another victory here, though in reality, 7fps isn't too much, but the difference is there.
Quake 3 Arena, 640x480 - Fastest
It's getting old, I know, but Quake 3 is still a decent benchmark for almost anything. For motherboards and CPUs, we run at the lowest settings and fire away.
Dead even. Quake 3 is not the best indicator of CPU/motherboard performance though as modern processors and mainboards all score in this vicinity.
Jedi Knight 2, 640x480 - Fastest
Jedi Knight is still a Quake 3 engine game, but more CPU dependent than Q3. The Chaintech maintains its lead, but not by much this time around.
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