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I had a think about what I should benchmark the Asus against in this review and then it hit me. I'll just take the lazy reviewers way out and use the same numbers I'd run for the XP3200+ review which the board did sterling service in.
That means pretty much the same graphs as that review which featured the nForce2 Ultra 400 up against Canterwood and 3.0C P4 with some XP3000+ numbers on an ABIT NF7-S for good measure.
So if you've read my XP3200+ article and digested the performance figures, you may as well skip to the end of the article for the conclusions, you wont see much new until then. In an effort to expedite this review off my pile, I'll leave more thorough performance analysis of the board for an upcoming monster article featuring a LOT of KT400A. Look out for that when I dig my way out from under that pile.
So here goes with the same stuff as the XP3200+ review but with a different slant on the commentary to be more AMD specific. Anyway, here's the test setup with some brutal cut and paste.
• AMD Athlon XP3200+ 'Barton' Processor, 2200MHz, 512KB L2 cache, 11 x 200MHz, Socket A
• AMD Athlon XP3000+ 'Barton' Processor, 2167MHz, 512KB L2 cache, 13 x 166MHz, Socket A
• Intel Pentium 4 'C' Processor, 3000MHz, 512KB L2 cache, 15 x 200MHz, Socket 478
• Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard, nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, Socket A
• Intel 875BZ 'Bonanza' motherboard, i875P chipset, Socket 478
• ABIT NF7-S motherboard, nForce2 chipset, Socket A
• 2 x 256MB Corsair XMS3200 memory, CL2, 6-2-2, DDR400 on the Asus motherboard
• 2 x 256MB Mushkin PC3500 memory, CL2, 6-2-2, DDR333 on the ABIT motherboard
• 2 x 256MB Kingmax PC3200 memory, CL2.5, 6-3-2, DDR400 on the Intel motherboard
• Sapphire Atlantis ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
• Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
• ATI CATALYST 3.2
• Intel Application Accelerator 3.0 RAID Edition and 5.00.1009 chipset drivers
• NVIDIA nForce 2.03 drivers
• DirectX 9.0 Runtime
• Hexus Pifast v41
• Lame v3.91 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album
• Hexus SETI benchmark
• 3DMark 2001SE v330
• UT2003 Demo (Build 2006)
• Comanche 4 Demo
• Serious Sam 2 Demo
• Quake3 v1.30
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