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• MSI K7N2-L, NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset, Socket A Athlon XP DDR Motherboard
• AMD Athlon XP2400+ 'Thoroughbred B' @ 15 x 133MHz FSB (2.00GHz)
• Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz 'Northwood' @ 23 x 133MHz FSB (3.06GHz)
• AMD Athlon XP2700+ 'Thoroughbred B' @ 13 x 166MHz FSB (2.17GHz)
• Intel Pentium 4 2.8 'Northwood' @ 21 x 133MHz FSB (2.8GHz)
• Intel D850EMV2, Intel i850e Chipset (with ICH2), Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 RDRAM Motherboard supporting HyperThreading
• Gigabyte GA-8IHXP, Intel i850e Chipset (with ICH4), Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 RDRAM Motherboard
• Asus A7N8X, NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset, Socket A Athlon XP DDR Motherboard
• 2 x 256Mb Mushkin PC2700 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• 2 x 256Mb Corsair PC3200 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• 2 x 256Mb Samsung PC800 RDRAM (PC1066 mode, 4 x 133)
• 2 x 256Mb Samsung PC1066 RDRAM (PC1066 mode, 4 x 133)
• Sapphire ATI Radeon R9700 Pro 128MB
• Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
• Plutonium XP 8.1 Radeon Drivers (based on ATI CATALYST build 6166)
• Quake3 v1.30
• 3DMark 2001 Professional Second Edition
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Demo
• Comanche 4 Demo Benchmark
• Hexus version of PiFast version 4.1, by Xavier Gourdon
• LAME v3.92 MMX and RazorLame 1.1.5 front end
• VirtualDub and DivX 4.12
• Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo
• OcUK SETI Benchmark
As always, benchmarks were run 3 times and the upper and lower results discarded to leave the median result for the graphs. If any result differed by more than 5% from the other 2, all 3 results were discarded and a fresh 3 results were obtained. Excepting SETI due to the time taken to complete this benchmark.
The MSI is up against another nForce2 in the form of the Asus A7N8X with XP2700+ and a pair of Intel based behemoths including our recent 3.06GHz test rig and a 2.8 with RDRAM.
The processor disparity looks ominous on the surface since the MSI can't obviously hope to keep up with the XP2700+ in the Asus but with a little brain power you can judge performance scaling and I'll talk about that as we go along.
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