Comanche 4, Serious Sam 2, Aquamark

Comanche 4 demo benchmark next. It's subsystem limited on Ti4400 so we'll get to see first hand how 8K5A2+ can do with the XP2600+ at the helm.

Top of the class for the board. Of course the raw CPU speed helps but the board exhibits SOYO-like performance so scale down the scores to the SOYO if you want to see what an XP2200+ would do.

Serious Sam 2 next.

We are card limited and to a certain extent memory/system bandwidth limited on the Socket A boards so even with XP2600+ to help things, we see only very marginal increases over the XP2200+ powered systems.

Strong performance however if you eliminate the variables and a good showing from 8K5A2+. Onto our final 3D based benchmark.

Aquamark is a real test of subsystem and graphics horsepower. 8K5A2+ should provide the fastest score seen to date.

If you remember the XP2600+ review, you'll have noticed we got our first ever 60fps+ result in Aquamark and the same score applies here. While an increase in memory/cpu bandwidth would very much help here since we aren't quite card limited, the 8K5A2+ keeps up the strong showing of the EPoX that we've seen so far.

Next up, some tests that don't need the video card letting us stress the board a bit more.

Review: EPoX EP-8K5A2+

Comanche 4, Serious Sam 2, Aquamark

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