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Date Posted: April 26, 2002

Performance

Ok, less talk, more action. Benchmarks! The usual Hit Squad of software was used for this purpose, namely SiSoft Sandra, 3dMark2001, and Quake III Arena (1.30). Also a new comer to the scene, PC Mark 2002, a new benchmark system from the makers of 3DMark. The test bed consists of : -

Athlon XP 1900+ (1600 mhz)
Abit KR7A - Raid (makes sense : ) )
Asus GeForce 3 Ti500 (Det's 27.10)
4 x 256 mb of Crucial buffered PC2100
2 x 60gig ATA100 IBM Deskstars
2 x 60gig ATA133 Maxtor DiamondMax (in Raid 0)

Windows XP
Via 4 in 1's v 4.33

SiSoft Sandra

Memory scores here are interesting. Just look at the difference between the KT266 and the KT266a, that's quite a jump on both accounts, and an impressive score on both accounts. CPU scores are equally impressive

Drive Benchmarks

The ATA133 drives were set up in a raid array for the extra speed they would provide, but alas the scores received on our test rig were very disappointing to say the least. There is a boost above a single ATA100 drive, but that's to be expected as this is a raid array. I was expecting to have at least a marginally better performance above an ATA100 Raid array, but as you can see here that was not the case. I ran the benchmark multiple times to be sure as well as adjusting some settings but each time the scores were similar. ATA133 would appear to not be a significant reason for buying this board.

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