Once again the Shuttle HOT-565, coming in
4th place, manages to defeat a great percentage of the newly released TX motherboards as
well as the SiS 5582 based AOpen AP58. Unfortunately none of the VP2/VP3 based
motherboards tested supported the 83MHz bus speed (with the exception of the highly
unstable Shuttle HOT-603 which failed the Winstone tests) therefore we can't get a wide
variety of scores in this particular test...final decision here? Intel all the
way...which is quite interesting since the AMD K6 would be one of the last processors one
would expect to shine with an Intel chipset.
Windows 95
Performance - Business Winstone 97 - AMD K6 225 (75MHz x 3.0) |
Motherboard |
Business
Winstone 97 |
ABIT AX5 2.2 |
57.5 |
ABIT IT5H 1.5 |
56.4 |
ABIT IT5H 2.0 |
55.6 |
ABIT PD5N |
55.2 |
ABIT PX5 |
56.6 |
ABIT TX5 |
56.1 |
ABIT TX5N |
55.8 |
AOpen AP58 |
55.9 |
AOpen AX5T-2 |
56.2 |
AOpen AX5T-3.1 |
56.7 |
ASUS TXP4-X |
57.0 |
Chaintech 5SDA |
55.7 |
Chaintech 5SIM |
55.8 |
Chaintech 5TDM2 |
56.3 |
Chaintech 5TTL |
56.4 |
Chaintech 5TTM |
Failed |
Chaintech 5TTM1 |
56.5 |
DFI P5XV3 |
56.8 |
DFI P5XV3 (AGP) |
56.9 |
EPoX P55-VP3 |
55.9 |
FIC PA-2007 |
56.3 |
FIC PA-2010+ |
51.8 |
FIC PA-2011 |
55.0 |
FIC PA-2012 |
56.9 |
FIC PA-2012 (AGP) |
57.2 |
FIC PT-2007 |
57.5 |
Megatrends HX83 |
56.6 |
MTech MIG R539 |
Failed |
MTech MIG R540 |
55.3 |
MTech MIG R541 |
55.7 |
MTech Mustang R534F |
54.0 |
QDI Titanium 1B |
56.1 |
Shuttle HOT-565 |
57.2 |
Shuttle HOT-567 |
55.8 |
Shuttle HOT-569 |
56.6 |
Shuttle HOT-571 |
56.2 |
Shuttle HOT-603 |
57.0 |
Supermicro P5MMA |
55.7 |
Supermicro P5MMS98 |
55.9 |
Tyan Titan Turbo S1573S |
55.6 |
|
|
A few months ago the FIC
PA-2007 was the topic of discussion all over the net, however in the hype most people
failed to notice the release of a much less prominent motherboard, the FIC PT-2007.
Nearly identical to the PA-2007 with the only real difference being that the PT-2007 is
based on the Intel TX chipset as opposed to VIA VP2 chipset found in the PA-2007.
Which is the faster motherboard? Contrary to popular belief, the TX based PT-2007 is
in fact a faster motherboard than the VP2 based PA-2007. The only real advantage of
the PA-2007 is the ability to cache above 64MB of RAM, which is only possible if you
purchase the PA-2007 with 1MB of L2 cache, and even then the motherboard will only cache
127MB of RAM. Although the VIA VP2 chipset has an integrated 10-bit tag RAM
comparator, the physical tag RAM used on the PA-2007 is a 32Kx8 module, with a realistic
width of 7-bits. What does this mean? It means that with 1MB of L2 cache you
can still only cache 127MB of RAM with the PA-2007, and with 512KB of L2 cache expect a
realistic cacheable memory area of approximately 64MB. Comparing a PA-2007 (512KB)
to a PT-2007 (512KB) now appears to be much easier than originally thought. Although
this may rule the VP2 chipset out of your decision, the VP3 chipset still remains, and it
packs a powerful punch.
In 4th place the FIC PA-2012 (AGP), using
the VIA VP3 chipset, proves that Intel doesn't necessarily rule all with the AMD K6
processor, while the point differential between the 1st place FIC PT-2007 and the 14th
place Chaintech 5TTM1 is only 1 Winstone point you need to realize that the most important
factor in any motherboard purchase is the feature-set the motherboard in question provides
you with. The benchmarks do have some relevance, however they shouldn't be the
deciding factor in your purchase. Naturally you don't want to purchase the slowest
motherboard here, however the performance of the top 20 motherboards on this chart are
pretty much equal in terms of real world situations.
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