Benchmarks III
We've been using Unreal Tournament Demo's in-built benchmark. It shows little preference to platform and is sensitive to changes in FSB or memory bandwidth. Let's see how our DFI dual-channel motherboard fares here. Run at 800x600 to minimise the effect that even a high-end card will have on the results.
The answer ? - quite favourably. Although there's not a lot to choose between the chipsets, there are tangible gains by going from, say, the i845E to a dual-channel motherboard. As it's designed for the workstation market, you'll know that it will be extremely stable. That's borne out by the DFI - a paradigm of stability throughout.
A quick run on Quake 3 to see some sky-high numbers. It's still a useful test of pure bandwidth. Run at 512 Fastest. v1.30 PR.
As expected, the DFI, when run in its preferred dual-channel mode, does well here.
