LAME, Pifast, SETI

LAME up first, our venerable media performance benchmark. Encoding some WAV data to MP3 is all about the CPU and the board letting the CPU run unhindered. Let's see how the EPoX does in that regard.

The CPU lets rip here and we have a score that will take a while to beat unless we get our hands on a really fast Pentium 4. The EPoX shows itself as a strong platform for Thoroughbred 'B' processors (when they finally appear in volume). Very strong performance so far in the non graphical tests.

Pifast next. A simple test of CPU and CPU-to-memory bandwidth. The strong FPU here should help the EPoX do well.

And it does. The board and CPU open up quite a huge lead over the rest due to the amazing FPU in the XP2600+. It's a credit to the EPoX that it doesn't slow the CPU down in any way.

Last up, SETI. We noted in the XP2600+ review that used this board that the SETI performance was excellent. Here's the graph.

Another win for the EPoX although aided by the XP2600+, its performance would still be solid with an XP2200+ under the hood.

While it's not an apples to apples comparison due to the XP2600+ in the EPoX, we can still draw meaningful conclusions from the results obtained.

Review: EPoX EP-8K5A2+

LAME, Pifast, SETI

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