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Review: VIA VPSD P4B-UR P4X333 Motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 25 June 2002, 00:00

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), VIA Technologies (TPE:2388)

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System Setup and benchmarking notes

Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.

  • Intel Pentium4 1600MHz S478 Northwood CPU
  • VIA VPSD P4X333 P4B-UR run in DDR333 Mode 
  • MSI 645E MAX-LRU SiS645DX Motherboard run in DDR333  
  • ABIT IT7 I845E MAX run at DDR266 mode
 

Common components

  • Asus Geforce4 Ti 4600 clocked at stock speeds (300/660)
  • 256MB Samsung PC2700 run at strictest timings (common for all three DDR motherboards)
  • 2x120GB Western Digital 120JB 7200rpm hard drive with 8MB cache.
  • Liteon 40x12x40 CDRW
  • Pioneer DVR-104 DVD ReWriter
  • Samcheer 420w PSU
  • 21" Sony G500 FD monitor
  • D-Link FE530TX NIC
  • Sonic Fury Soundcard
  • Lian-Li PC60 Aluminium Case

Software

  • Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
  • Detonator XP 28.32 drivers
  • Sisoft Sandra 2002 Professional
  • Pifast v41
  • Lame v3.91 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end
  • XMpeg 4.2A DVD encoding, DivX 5.0 CODEC
  • Ocuk SETI benchmark
  • 3DMark 2000
  • 3DMark 2001SE
  • Comanche 4 benchmark
  • Serious Sam 2 Demo
  • Quake 3 v1.30 

I'll be comparing the P4X333 to both the SiS645DX and I845E chipsets at 100 FSB, mainly due to the fact that I could not get the P4X333 to work at 133FSB irrespective of options used. 

All benchmarks were conducted at 1024x768x32 100Hz with vertical sync' disabled. Benchmarks were run 3 times consecutively, an average score was taken. All three systems were configured for maximum performance.

I fully expect the P4X333 to put up a decent showing at 100FSB due to it directly supporting PC2700 and even PC3200 memory out-of-the-box. I tried using the 200MHz memory option and although I could boot-in fine, I couldn't achieve any kind of real stability. Therefore, I've gone with PC2700 memory at the strictest possible timings including the 1T memory command.