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I'm going to be rather unfair and pit this board up against some of the more high performance solutions I've had thought the grinder recently including XP2600 and P4 on DDR. What it'll hopefully show you is that given a decent processor under the hood, it runs well enough for the target audience.
• Leadtek 7350KDA, SiS735 Chipset, Socket A AMD DDR Motherboard
• EPoX 8K5A2+, VIA KT333 Chipset (+ VT8235), Socket A AMD DDR Motherboard
• MSI 645E Max2 LRU, SiS645DX Chipset, Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 DDR Motherboard
• SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra, VIA KT333 Chipset, Socket A AMD DDR Motherboard
• Intel Pentium 4 1.8A 'Northwood' @ 133MHz FSB (2.4GHz, 2.4B effective)
• AMD Athlon XP2200+ @ 133MHz FSB (1.8GHz)
• AMD Athlon XP2100+ @ 133MHz FSB (1.733GHz)
• AMD Athlon XP2600+ 'Thoroughbred' @ 16.5 x 133MHz FSB (2.13GHz)
• 2 x 256Mb Samsung PC2700 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• 2 x 256Mb TwinMos PC2700 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• MSI G4Ti4400-VTD (MS-8871) GeForce4 Ti4400 128MB
• Adaptec 39160 PCI SCSI Dual Channel U160 controller
• 18.3GB Seagate Cheetah X15 U160 15,000rpm SCSI disk
• 2 x 73Gb Seagate Cheetah U160 10,000rpm SCSI disks
• Plextor 12/10/32S SCSI CDRW
• Pioneer 6x Slot-load SCSI DVD
• Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player Retail
• Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
• DetonatorXP 28.80 NVIDIA drivers
• Aquamark v2.3
• Quake3 v1.30
• 3DMark 2001 Professional Second Edition
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Demo
• Comanche 4 Demo Benchmark
• PiFast version 4.1, by Xavier Gourdon
• LAME v3.91 MMX and RazorLame 1.1.5 front end
The Leadtek unfortunately wouldn't boot the XP2200+ I had at the time so an XP2100+ was sourced that worked fine. Beware of this when thinking about putting a new 'Thoroughbred' in this board.
So a large range of systems for the Leadtek to fight against with XP2100+ under the hood. Don't expect it to do that badly, the SiS735 is a nice performer. The usual blurb about the software setup next then onto the graphs and commentary.
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