Iwill DVD266-R Dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro266 Preview
by Mike Andrawes on March 27, 2001 3:01 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
The Test
In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by
a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other
and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore
you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but
also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing
as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.
Click Here to learn about AnandTech's Motherboard Testing Methodology.
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Test Configuration |
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| Processor(s): |
2x
Intel Pentium III 733MHz Retail
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| RAM: |
1 x 128MB Smart PC2100 DDR SDRAM
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| Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 153BA Ultra
ATA 66 7200 RPM
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| Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.24 Service Pack
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| Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
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| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 6.50
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| Operation System(s): |
Windows
2000 Professional
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| Motherboard Revision: |
Iwill
DVD266-R Revision 1.0
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| BIOS Revision |
3420A
(1/12/2001)
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Benchmarking
Applications:
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Quake
III Arena v1.16n demo001.dm3
Ziff Davis Media Content Creation Winstone 2001 Ziff Davis Media Business Winstone 2001 BAPCo SYSMark 2000 CliBench Mk III SMP 0.7.10 CSA Research Benchmark Studio beta 2.0 - Office Bench 2.0 |
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Windows 2000 Professional Performance |
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Sysmark
2000
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Benchmark
Studio (OfficeBench 2.0)
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Business
Winstone 2001
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Content
Creation
Winstone 2001 |
Quake
III Arena
640 x 480 x 16 |
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MSI
694D Pro
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162
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36.72
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30.5
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34.3
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116.5
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Iwill
DVD266-R
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169
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34.56
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31.5
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36.8
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124.5
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From the above benchmarks, we can see that the DVD266-R holds the lead over the MSI 694D Pro, thanks to the additional memory bandwidth afforded by the DDR SDRAM. In general we are looking at a performance gain from 3 to 7%.
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Windows 2000 Professional Performance |
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Dhrystones
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Whetstones
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Eight
Queens
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Matrix
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Number
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Floating
Point
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MSI
694D Pro
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2392
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833
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3290
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68131
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111452 |
11186
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Iwill
DVD266-R
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2375
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824
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3252
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71909
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111006 |
11115
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With the help of some synthetic benchmarks, we notice some very interesting things. Remember that the first set of CliBench Mk III SMP 0.7.10 tests rely highly on CPU performance. With a dual CPU setup, this also relies on the quality of the SMP implementation, since we are running two threads at the same time.
These tests show the DVD266-R losing to the MSI 694D Pro in almost every category. This probably means that Iwill still has quite a bit of work to be done on the SMP implementation in order to really bring out the potential of the two CPUs.
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Windows 2000 Professional Performance |
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CPU
Usage (%)
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Memory
Throughput
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Hard
Drive Read
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Hard
Drive Write
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Max
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Avg
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Min
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Max
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Avg
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Min
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MSI
694D Pro
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1
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127931
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15584
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12828
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11302
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21823
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19852
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17747
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Iwill
DVD266-R
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1
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173622
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20480
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16806
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14222
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27379
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24824
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20480
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Memory throughput test is clearly won by the DVD266-R, which correlates to the added memory bandwidth provided by DDR SDRAM. Note, however, that it's not double the throughput as you might expect from the theoretical values.
When it comes to the hard drive transfer rate tests, we also noticed something interesting. Even though we used the same Ultra ATA 66 drive for both test, the DVD266-R was able to outperform the MSI 694D Pro by around 30%, which is quite significant. This could be the result of an improved IDE controller in the newer South Bridge, the V-Link architecture, or something within the design of the board itself.
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