System setup and notes
System setup and notes
Test Platforms| System | SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation System | ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 System | ABIT AX8 S939 System | Intel i955X System |
| Processor(s) | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ | Intel Pentium 4 660 |
| Mainboard | SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 | ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 | ABIT AX8 VIA K8T890 | Intel D955XBK |
| Memory | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS2-5400UL | Memory timings | 2-2-2-5 1T @ DDR400 | 2-2-2-5 1T @ DDR400 | 2-2-2-5 1T @ DDR400 | 3-2-2-8 @ DDR533 |
| Graphics Card | ATI RADEON X850 XT PE - PEG16X - CATALYST 5.4 | Disk Drive | 160GB WD IDE & 36GB SATA Raptor | |
| BIOS Version | BIOS 9th August 2005 | BIOS 13 - 25th April 2005 | BIOS 10 - 25th February 2005 | BK95510J.86A.1452.EB |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, SP2 (32-bit) | |||
| Mainboard Software | ATI | NVIDIA ForceWare 6.39 platform driver | VIA Hyperion Pro v4.55 | Intel INF Update Utility 7.0.0.1019 |
Benchmark Software
HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
CINEBENCH 2003 multi-CPU render
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.97a (Intel HT compiler) - 701MB WAV
picCOLOR 32-bit v4.0
KribiBench v1.1
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1
Simpli Software's HDTach 3.01
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark2001SE b330
UT2003 Bot Match
Notes
No problems to report during a weekend of testing. The board successfully completed a 24-hour stress test without issue.
We'll be looking at the 'PURE's performance against 2 established S939 chipsets from VIA and NVIDIA, respectively. An Intel i955X will be thrown in for good measure.
The running speed of the four PCI-Express-based systems were as follows:
3600.2MHz - Intel i955XBK - Intel i955X - Intel Pentium 4 660
2411.2MHz - ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 - nForce4 Ultra - AMD Athlon 64 4000+
2410.9MHz - SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 - ATI Xpress 200P - AMD Athlon 64 4000+
2405.4MHz - ABIT AX8 - VIA K8T890 - AMD Athlon 64 4000+
Compatibility
The benchmarks that follow were conducted with our tried-and-trusted Corsair Xpert XMS3200XL modules in situ. We also tested compatibility with DDR RAM from Mushkin, Patriot and OCZ. Again, there were no problems to report.
On to the benchmarks!
