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• Leadtek K7NCR18G Pro, NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset, Socket A Athlon XP DDR Motherboard
• Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz 'Northwood' @ 23 x 133MHz FSB (3.06GHz)
• AMD Athlon XP2700+ 'Thoroughbred B' @ 13 x 166MHz FSB (2.17GHz)
• AMD Athlon XP2400+ 'Thoroughbred B' @ 15 x 133MHz FSB (2.00GHz)
• 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 Crucial 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
• ATI CATALYST 3.1
• Quake3 v1.30
• 3DMark 2001 Professional Second Edition
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Demo
• Comanche 4 Demo Benchmark
• Hexux 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
Our usual suspects join us again for the benchmark results. Being an IGP based board I'll be taking a look at integrated graphics performance from the onboard graphics core which uses system memory as display memory. This obviously has an impact on memory bandwidth so it's a good test of NVIDIA's dual channel TwinBank memory controllers on the IGP so I'll comment on that when possible.
So the board will be tested in 3 configurations:
• Radeon 9700 Pro parked in the AGP slot, 2 x 256MB memory in TwinBank mode
• No Radeon, onboard core, 2 x 256MB memory in TwinBank mode
• No Radeon, onboard core, 1 x 256MB memory, no TwinBank
So you'll see 3 Leadtek entries on the graph and it'll let you see what TwinBank does for integrated graphics performance as well as how the board performs with a 9700 Pro doing the graphics duty. AGP8X mode for the Radeon at all times, 128MB AGP aperture. 64MB framebuffer for the integrated graphics so 448MB left for the rest of the system in that mode.
The Asus A7N8X will be the main competitor for the Leadtek and there's 3 P4 configurations in the mix too. 3.06 + RDRAM with HT on and off and a 2.8 on a Gigabyte RDRAM board. Finally, XP2400+ on the MSI K7N2-L to let me compare it to the onboard core performance, you'll see what I mean as the review progresses. SC = Single Channel, DC = Dual Channel/TwinBank in the graphs. Let's take a look!
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