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The fourth of our 3D based benchmarks first, this test is a nice indication of overall system throughput. The Ti4400 is more than a match for the benchmark here so the rest of the the system components take center stage in determining overall performance.
A comparative lack of system throughput and bandwidth and a lack of CPU speed compared to the other systems means the graph doesn't look too good on first examination. A second glance shows that we couldn't really expect it to keep up 100% due to being slower in CPU speed and the SiS735 not being quite as optimised as KT333. Performance was exactly where it should be, just not competitive with the high end systems on test.
For a budget board however, it's spot on.
So what about some non 3D tests. These stress CPU speed and memory bandwidth more than anything else so what we are looking for here is the SiS735 to allow the XP2100+ to run unhindered. Let's look at Pifast first. It's a race to calculate the value of Pi to 10 million decimal places.
Only 3 seconds off 2.4B means that the XP2100+ is getting free reign from the SiS735 to use all the bandwidth available and stretch its legs as much as possible. Nothing spectacular, but strong when taken in context. Certainly nothing out of the ordinary.
LAME is purely CPU limited so provided the board lets the CPU work hard, the Leadtek should put in a good showing.
XP2100 beats 2.4B by the smallest of margins to leave the P4 trailing in terms of MP3 encoding performance. The FPU performance of the K7 design on the Athlon XP means that even given a relatively low end platform such as SiS735, it can still push out big performance. A nice placement for the Leadtek.
Finally to round things off, SETI. Budget boards like this are often popular for people building mini SETI farms of a few machines to set aside as dedicated crunchers. So the SETI crowd will appreciate this benchmark result. Technically, it tests CPU performance and memory bandwidth. Let's see how the Leadtek gets on.
Not far off the pace all things considered. In context, it does well and it's exactly where you'd expect it to be against the test systems. XP2600 runs away with this with a massively impressive performance.
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