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Big Business: 18 P4 boards In Price / Performance Face-Off
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24. Test Setup
  1. Big Business: In Search Of The Price/performance King
  2. The Test Sample: Anything Goes!
  3. Memory: Run-of-the-mill Timing
  4. Maximum Possible Effectiveness: Hardware Features
  5. Maximum Possible Effectiveness: Hardware Features, Continued
  6. Abit BD7-E
  7. Acorp 4PE800
  8. Albatron PM845GL1-533
  9. AOpen AX4PE Max
  10. Azza P4X4-ALH
  11. Biostar P4TPE8
  12. Chaintech 9VJL3
  13. DFI PS35-BL
  14. Elitegroup P4Vmm2
  15. FIC P4-865P Ultra
  16. Gigabyte GA-8S648FX
  17. Intel D865 PERL
  18. Jetway P4845PEBL
  19. MSI 845PE Max
  20. QDI/Legend PlatiniX 2E-333 6A
  21. Shuttle AV49N
  22. Soyo P4I875 Dragon 2 Platinum Edition
  23. XFX Mach4 845PE-ANT
  24. Test Setup
  25. Benchmark Results
  26. Unreal Tournament 2003
  27. 3D Mark 2003
  28. Lame 3.92 MP3 Encoding
  29. 3DStudio Max
  30. SPECviewperf 7.1
  31. Sysmark 2002
  32. SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro
  33. Conclusion: It Always Pays To Compare.
General Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06 GHz HT (FSB533)
RAM 2x 512 MB Corsair TWINX DDR400 or 1x 512 MB Buffalo Tech DDR400 Timings: 6-3-3-CL2.5
Hard Drive Western Digital WD2500JB 250 GB, 7,200 rpm, UltraATA/100
Graphics Card GeForce FX 5600, 128 MB
Network Card 3COM 3C905-TX
Drivers & Adjustments
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 Series Version 44.03
Chipset Driver Intel-based:
Intel INF-Update 5.00.1009
Intel Application Accelerator 2.3/3.0

VIA-based:
VIA Hyperion 4in1 4.48v

SiS-based:
AGP 1.16
IDE 2.03
DirectX Version 9.0b
Resolution 1024x768x32, 85 Hz
OS Windows XP Professional SP1
Benchmarks
Bapco Sysmark 2002 Version 1.0
Quake III Arena Patch V1.16
640x480 - 16 bit / 1024 x 768 - 32 bit
Timedemo1 / demo demo001 / nv15demo
command line = +set cd_nocd 1
+set s_initsound 0
Graphics detail = Normal
Gunmetal Benchmark Benchmark 1
3DMark 2003 Version 3.2.0
Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark
1024 x 786 - 32 bit
PCMark 2002 Pro Pack Build 101
CPU and Speicher Tests
SiSoftware Sandra Standard 2003 SP1 Version 2003.3.9.44
CPU MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic
Speicher Bandwidth Benchmark
Newtek Lightwave Version 7.5 - Build 572
Render First Frame = 1
Render Last Frame = 60
Render Frame Step = 1
Rendering Bench
"SKULL_HEAD_NEWEST.LWS"
Show Rendering in Progress = 320x240
Ray Trace Shadows, Reflection
Refraction, Transparency = on
Multithreading = 8 Threads
Unreal Tournament 2003 Version 2206
system/benchmark.exe
1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = off
Texture Detail = Normal
Character Detail = Normal
World Detail = Highest
Physics Detail = High
all = on, Decal Stay = High
Xmpeg 4.5 AMD: Otimized MMX iDCT
Intel: Otimized SEE2 iDCT
WinRAR Version 3.2
178 MB Wave file, Compression = Best
Dictionary = 4096 kB
Comanche 4 Demo 1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = off
Discreet
3D Studio Max 5.1		 Characters "Dragon_Charater_rig"
Rendering Single, 1024x768
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Summary
  1. Big Business: In Search Of The Price/performance King
  2. The Test Sample: Anything Goes!
  3. Memory: Run-of-the-mill Timing
  4. Maximum Possible Effectiveness: Hardware Features
  5. Maximum Possible Effectiveness: Hardware Features, Continued
  6. Abit BD7-E
  7. Acorp 4PE800
  8. Albatron PM845GL1-533
  9. AOpen AX4PE Max
  10. Azza P4X4-ALH
  11. Biostar P4TPE8
  12. Chaintech 9VJL3
  13. DFI PS35-BL
  14. Elitegroup P4Vmm2
  15. FIC P4-865P Ultra
  16. Gigabyte GA-8S648FX
  17. Intel D865 PERL
  18. Jetway P4845PEBL
  19. MSI 845PE Max
  20. QDI/Legend PlatiniX 2E-333 6A
  21. Shuttle AV49N
  22. Soyo P4I875 Dragon 2 Platinum Edition
  23. XFX Mach4 845PE-ANT
  24. Test Setup
  25. Benchmark Results
  26. Unreal Tournament 2003
  27. 3D Mark 2003
  28. Lame 3.92 MP3 Encoding
  29. 3DStudio Max
  30. SPECviewperf 7.1
  31. Sysmark 2002
  32. SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro
  33. Conclusion: It Always Pays To Compare.

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