Memory Tests
The same drill as with K8V. Memory tests, CPU tests and then a couple of pages of tests that use the AGP card too, just to make sure things are working as they should. Being a K8T800 board, we're looking for the Albatron to perform relative to the other two K8T800s on test. The P4 makes up the numbers, but it's a useful comparison to the best the Intel side of the fence has to offer.Pifast first, our own custom test to 10 million places. It's a test that likes low latency memory accesses rather than any big performance gains from L2 cache memory. A fast FPU is the other big help.
We're close to breaking the minute mark with a stock system here, just .23 of a second shy. Awfully fast from all systems on test, the Albatron takes the early win. I've only seen sub 60 seconds from a stock clocked system once, and that involved a $900 processor with a fridge stuck to its face.
Two ScienceMark tests now. The first tests raw, buffered, SIMD assisted memory bandwidth. This is a theoretical maximum available from the memory modules and the memory controller, rather than a real world figure, but the highlighted differences usually help us determine an early pecking order for the systems.
Remember I talked about the naughty bus clocking the Albatron does from the factory? 201.4MHz to be exact. That's responsible for the slight win here. Dual channel P4 romps home with the theoretical victory due to its very nature.
We're testing main memory access time here, without the aid of a sprawling superimposed Cachemem plot. Mighty fast, no slower than any of the other K8T800s on test. The CPU is doing all the hard work here, the motherboard simply gives it a place to happen.
Some good early performance from the Albatron, here's hoping it keeps it up.
