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Foxconn 875A02-6EKRS Foxconn 875A02-6EKRS: A new entry into the crowded motherboard market, does Foxconn have what it takes?
Date: May 7, 2004
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SiSoft 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 at stock 2.4GHz. I wanted to test at 3.0GHz overclocked as well, but alas I am unable to, so I had to settle for 2.76GHz.

As before, the AI7 Springdale chipset is outperforming the Canterwood in almost every category, with the Multimedia benchmark the most drastic of the results. The memory benchmark nod, however, goes to the Foxconn.

One interesting note here, while going through the SiSoft Sandra pages I came across the AGP Fast Write setting. SiSoft stated that the AGP Fast Write was off. I went into the ATI Catalyst Control Panel settings and in the SMARTGART page, it stated that the AGP Fast Write was off as well. This is interesting because there is no setting in the BIOS to enable AGP Fast Writes (Foxconn stated that it is automated through the video card drivers) and every time I went to enable the AGP Fast Write in the ATI Control Panel, they were shut off again at reboot. I did not have this issue with the AI7 AGP Fast Write and the same ATI 9600 XT video card.


PiFast

A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is PiFast version 4.3, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10,000,000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.


Time in Seconds, Lower is better

This is an interesting chart, the AI7 scores a mere 0.5 seconds faster than the Foxconn at standard clock speeds. This compared to the previous Canterwood chipset I compared the AI7 to was over 3 seconds slower

TMPGEnc MPEG Encoding

Video encoding is a taxing chore, and we'll be testing the 875A02 using TMPGEnc 2.521 to encode a 150mb AVI file to MPEG-2 (a somewhat more realistic chore as DVDs are MPEG-2). For the AVI to MPEG-2 I used a bitrate of 5000k/Sec, as this is the midrange for a DVD, which is typically between 1000k/Sec to 10,000k/Sec. I used a frame size of 720x480 (DVD Std) and 16:9 NTSC. Note that lower scores are better.

Time in Minutes, Lower is better

The AI7 motherboard outperformed the 875A02 in this test, not by much mind you. It would have been nice to see a 3.0GHz test here instead of the 2.76GHz.

Unreal Tournament 2003

UT2K3 is a real system killer, and can bring many systems to its knees. Even though UT2K4 is out, the engine is basically the same, and I have not had the time or money to purchase it yet. We used the [H]ardocp UT2003 Benchmarking utility version 2.1, which are excellent tools in testing various resolutions and detail levels. We selected the CPU test, which uses the dm-inferno map.

The Foxconn performed well in UT2003 tests, outpacing the AI7 on every test. Once again (is this a recurring theme?), we would like to have seen a 3.0GHz benchmark.

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