Review: Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II Deluxe Limited

• AMD Athlon XP3200+ 'Barton' Processor, 2200MHz, 512KB L2 cache, 11 x 200MHz, Socket A
• Intel Pentium 4 'C' Processor, 3000MHz, 512KB L2 cache, 15 x 200MHz, Socket 478

• Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II Deluxe Limited motherboard, nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, Socket A
• ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard, nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, Socket A
• Intel 875BZ 'Bonanza' motherboard, i875P chipset, Socket 478

• 2 x 256MB Corsair XMS3200 memory, CL2, 5-2-2, DDR400 on the ASUS and Leadtek motherboards
• 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 3.4
• 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


Leadtek vs ASUS vs Intel. XP3200+ on the AMD boards, 3.0C on the Intel. 512MB on all three, our usual raft of benchmarks and our usual operating system settings. CATALYST 3.2 for the ATI board. This is to keep parity with the benchmarks run on the ASUS with the same driver, and the Intel board too. Add on a little more performance for the latest 3.4 set, and the 3.5's if you've updated to those.

It's back to a one graph per benchmark format, being a motherboard review. You'll be thankful, if you've taken in a recent graphics card review of mine.