System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test
system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.
- Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale motherboard (F3 BIOS)
- DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2 i925X motherboard
- ASUS
A8V Deluxe S939 VIA K8T800 Pro motherboard
- ABIT IC7-G i875P
Canterwood motherboard
Other components
Intel Pentium 4 560 CPU (3.6GHz
Prescott, LGA775, 1MB L2 cache )Intel
Pentium 4 3.4GHz Northwood CPU (S478, 512kb L2 cache)AMD Athlon 64 Model
3500+ CPU (2.2GHz, 512kb L2 cache)AMD
Athlon 64 Model 3800+ CPU (2.4GHz, 512kb L2 cache)NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, AGP, 350/1000NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, PCI Express, 350/10001GB
(2x512MB) OCZ Platinum Rev2 , run
at 2-2-2-51GB (2x512MB)
Corsair XMS2 4300 DDR2, run at 4-4-4-12
Pioneer 105
DVD-RW
Western Digital 160GB (WD1600) 8MB cache hard drive
Dell P991 19" monitor
Software
SP1
DirectX 9.0b
runtime
Intel 6.0.1.1006 chipset drivers
Intel Application Accelerator for
ICH6
VIA Hyperion 4.51 driver set
NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77 driver
set
Pifast v4.1 to 10m places
Lame v3.92 MP3 encoding with
Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album (611MB)
HEXUS XviD encoding test
KribiBench 1.1
ScienceMark 2.0
Realstorm Raytracing Benchmark 2004 -
512x384x32
3DMark 2001SE v330
UT2003 Retail
(Build 2225)
Comanche 4 benchmark
DOOM3 - Timedemo 1
Notes
I'll be comparing Gigabyte's hybrid board against a full i925X DFI
LANPARTY motherboard that's running a PCIe GeForce 6800 GT and DDR2
memory. I'll also be looking at how a Pentium 4 560 (3.6GHz) compares
against a 3.4GHz Northwood run on a tuned Canterwood motherboard.
Additionally, we'll see how Intel's platforms compare against a couple
of AMD's current finest.
No problems to report during
testing. Benchmarks were carried out at 1024x768x32 85Hz unless
otherwise stated.
