Review: SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition

Since day one, it's been clear that Aquamark likes two things to run well, a fast CPU and a fast GPU. The more hardware shader performance and CPU horsepower to feed the GPU the better. So all 3 test systems should excel here. Look for more strangely similar performance between the two KT333 boards (shock horror!).



Ooh, so close to 60fps for the first time out of the box for this reviewer. Actually, 60fps+ was possible but my testing procedure removes the upper and lower results from the triplet collected so you get the median result of 59.9fps. Strong performance all round from all 3 systems with the SOYO being the top dog. In the real world, identical but the manufacturers love their wins so lets hand it to SOYO for their Aquamark performance.

So what's next? We know that 3D performance is strong, what about some CPU and memory bandwidth tests for our systems? Let's take a peek at SETI and LAME performance on the next page.