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Straight away, before any graphs make an appearance and before any commentary gets written, it's worth pointing out that you can take the XP3000 results on the ABIT NF7-S as gospel with regards to XP3000+ performance on the ASUS. I did some quick XP3000+ speed testing and results were within a reasonable margin of error. That's going to be the order of the day with the commentary I'm afraid, nForce2 Ultra 400 is no quicker than normal nForce2 at the same clocks.
So first up, a fans favourite, Quake3.
Quake3 performance
Quake3, at 1024x768x32 and High Quality settings is almost completely subsystem limited with the test Radeon 9700 Pro. It just chews up CPU and memory bandwidth and to that effect, the Canterwood system wins. In terms of AMD performance, we see nice performance scaling from 166MHz front side bus to the new 200MHz frequency and an initial indication that the ASUS and the 'new' chipset are working just fine. Onto 3DMark 2001SE.
3DMark 2001SE performance
No comparison result to older nForce2 at 166MHz but bus speed scaling would be evident none the less. Nothing interesting to see, other than nice performance from both. Moving swiftly on.
Novalogic Comanche 4 performance
More scaling due to the higher bus speed and broadly similar clocks. Just what we expected.
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