Testing
It is all very well producing theoretical tests to demonstrate performance. What is more important is the way that the performance makes a difference to real tasks. The Granite Bay chipset should find itself used either as a high end workstation being utilised for CAD or 3D modelling or as an extreme gaming machine.The Asus P4G8X as a component board is certain to be mainly used in the gaming arena, so our tests are focused on that.
The benchmarks were all carried out using the same core components and each test was run twice to ensure accuracy. All graphics tests were run at 1024x768 32bit colour resolution.
As a comparison the test were run on both the Asus P4G8X and the DFI NB80 at stock speed (133FSB). If you wish to analyse the results against none Granite Bay chipsets then comparing the results to our DFI NB80 review here – insert link to the DFI review in a new window - will give you a clue. Please remember that the other results were obtained using a different processor and setup.
The tests were run at stock speed and then again with the board overclocked to 180FSB so that you can see the true potential of the board.
