ScienceMark 2.0 and Pifast
A simple dogfight between two premier Intel dual-channel boards and an excellent example of just what a potent platform the Athlon 64 3200+ can be. The Biostar VIA K8T800-powered K8VHA Pro is supremely fast, and it underscores the belief that GHz isn't everything.
ScienceMark 2.0's memory bandwidth test will always perform better on a platform that can readily use dual-channel memory bandwidth. The Pentium 4 and Athlon FX-51 both spring to immediate mind. The DFI starts off well, and it falls in just behind the IC7 with its Game Accelerator settings enabled.
Latency-wise, both Intel boards aren't going to get close to the results returned by the on-die memory controller present on the Athlon 64 3200+. Both, however, are in close proximity to one another. We thus expect benchmarks to be close.
Pifast iterates that closeness. There's comfortably less than a second between all three protagonists and less just over a quarter second between the Intel boards. As a reference, a standard Springdale, i.e. one that hasn't undergone a memory acceleration makeover, would benchmark at around the 63.5s mark.
