Test Setup
ABIT
KV8 Pro-3rd Eye K8T800 Pro: Athlon 64 S754 3200+ (10x200: 2GHz),
2 x 512MB Corsair TWINX PC3200 XL, AIW Radeon 9600 XT, 120GB Maxtor
SATA 7200rpm, Windows XP SP1, VIA Hyperion 4in1 4.53, ATI Catalyst
4.10.
ABIT
KV8-Max3 K8T800: Athlon 64 S754 3200+ (10x200: 2GHz), 2 x 512MB
Corsair TWINX PC3200 XL, AIW Radeon 9600 XT, 120GB Maxtor SATA
7200rpm, Windows XP SP1, VIA Hyperion 4in1 4.53, ATI Catalyst
4.10.
MSI
K8N Neo nForce 3 250Gb: Athlon 64 S754 3200+ (10x200: 2GHz), 2
x 512MB Corsair TWINX PC3200 XL, AIW Radeon 9600 XT, 120GB Maxtor
SATA 7200rpm, Windows XP SP1, NVIDIA ForceWare 5.10, ATI Catalyst
4.10.
Test
software will be:
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, using the
32-bit 2004 version.
Business
Winstone 2004 - The ZD Winstone suite is a script that
runs a series of actions and calculates a final score that measures
a PC's overall performance.
Sysmark
2004 - Sysmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the
mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark
used to characterize the performance of the business client. It
uses a number of real-world applications and runs them through
a series of tests. We tested with the office, and content creation
benchmarks.
PiFast
- We used a computation of 10000000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method,
1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Note that lower scores are better,
and times are in seconds.
CDex
1.51 - Bad Company - 10 from 9 was ripped into one 414MB
.wav file. We then encoded that .wav file into a 320Kb/s sample
rate MP3.
TMPGEnc
2.521 - We used an Animatrix file, titled The
Second Renaissance Part 1, and a WAV created from VirtualDub.
The movie was then converted it into a DVD compliant MPEG-2 file
with a bitrate of 5000. Times are in minutes, seconds, and lower
is better.
Unreal Tournament 2003, Quake 3: Arena - Old and moldy, both
games were run at 640x480 with minimal detail and sound disabled
to test CPU performance.
All benchmarks were run a total of three times, with the average
results shown here today. Sound was disabled at the BIOS level,
and memory timings configured at 2-2-2-5 at DDR400.
SiSoft Sandra 2004 - CPU Arithmetic
SiSoft Sandra 2004 - CPU Multimedia
SiSoft Sandra 2004 - Memory
Except for the memory benchmarks, the KV8 Pro trails
the nForce 3 powered K8N Neo by a slight margin in CPU and MMX.
In all the cases, the KV8 Pro outpaces the KV8-MAX3.
Business Winstone 2004
In our first real-world script, we can see the KV8
Pro pulling out on top of the other two here. Will this trend
continue with the rest of our benchmarks?
