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SiSoftware Sandra 2003
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
As expected there is hardly any difference in the K7N2 Delta-ILSR and the ABIT NF7-S, since they are both based on the same chipset. But you can really see the MSI board flex its muscles when overclocked, putting in some impressive numbers.
Memory Benchmark
Memory scores show something interesting. The MSI board pulls just in front of the ABIT NF7-S although in real world terms you wont notice the difference. Once again at 10.5x219, the K7N2 Delta-ILSR puts in some fantastic numbers.
PC Mark 2002
No real surprises here, both boards are neck and neck until we 'free the reins' as it were and overclock the MSI board.
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.
Lower is better
Here we can see something interesting in that the ABIT NF7-S is left behind somewhat. PiFast is said to be very memory intensive, and going by the scores here it would seem that the MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR has a slight advantage over the ABIT board. Of course, in the real world mileage is going to vary.
TMPGEnc MPEG Encoding
Video editing is a taxing chore, and we'll be testing the K7N2 Delta-ILSR using TMPGEnc 2.512 to encode a 7.78MB, 1:30 movie trailer to a 23FPS MPG file. You can grab a screenshot of our settings here. Note that lower scores are better.
Lower is better
Both boards perform on par with one another which is to be expected, and this test really shows the power of a high FSB coupled with Dual Channel memory.
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MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR: Whilst the original nForce2 supports DDR400, it doesn't officially support 400 FSB and as we have come to learn, the best performance can be found when running your FSB and memory synchronously. This is where the nForce 2 Ultra 400 steps in.
