Benchmarks

Test Setup

• AMD ThunderBird 1.2
• MSI GeForce 2 Pro
• Pioneer 16X DVD
• 30GB IBM 75GXP
• 256MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM
• Windows XP Professional
• VIA 4-in-1 Drivers (versions 4.35)

Memory Benchmark

I was quite surprised when I ran this benchmark, although it does beat the KT266 by a good margin, the margin wasn't good enough in my eyes. I ran this test with 4 way bank interleaving and at CAS latency 2. I spoke to other webmasters about this and the only difference I had when running the test than they did was that I was using Windows XP, that might be the reason for the performance gap and it might not.

CPU Benchmark

The CPU benchmark was as expected. Just a TAD slower than normal, nothing to worry about.

I could go on and on with charts and graphs but as Anand said, motherboards all are getting good enough to close the performance gap within each other to about 1%. So all of the tests would be wasted as all of the numbers would be similar enough to declare that all motherboards are the same.

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