SiSoft Sandra Memory

As expected, the 166 memory speed provides a nice boost over the 133 speeds. To be honest though, the improvements were not as high as I had hoped. You've probably have heard that the bottleneck for the KT333 is not the chipset itself, but rather, the CPU. The Athlon is still designed for the 266FSB, and it simply isn't optimized to feed the KT333 as it should.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic

SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia

I think it's pretty obvious that performance is within a few percentage points of one another. Although the differences are slight, the KT3 Ultra2 does seem to be a little speedier than its older brother.

PC Mark 2002

A recent release by , we've decided to incorporate PC Mark 2002 into our motherboard and CPU testing for future reviews. It provides tests that benchmarks a PC for typical SOHO use. Here's a snip from their site:

PCMark"2002 is a completely new, multipurpose benchmark, suited for benchmarking all kinds of PCs, from laptops to workstations, as well as across multiple Windows® operating systems. This easy-to-use benchmark makes professional strength benchmarking software available even to novice users. PCMark2002 consists of a series of tests that represent common tasks in home and office programs. PCMark2002 also covers many additional areas outside the scope of other MadOnion.com benchmarks.

Pretty much no difference. To be honest, we don't really put a whole lot of stock into this particular benchmark, but it is a free download, so you can test it yourslf and compare with our results.

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