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.

Test Configuration

Processor(s):
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
RAM:
1 x 128MB Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
1 x 128MB Smart PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive(s):
Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA 66 7200 RPM
Chipset Drivers:
AMD AGP Miniport Driver 4.80
VIA IDE Bus Master Driver 2.1.50
VIA IRQ Routing Driver 13a
Video Card(s):
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
Video Drivers:
NVIDIA Detonator 5.22
Operation System(s):
Windows 98 SE
Motherboard Revision:
FIC AD11 Revision 1.2

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Windows 98 Performance

Athlon 1GHz OEM

SYSMark 2000

Content Creation Winstone 2000

Quake 3 Arena 640x480x16

FIC AD11 (AMD 760 / 133MHz)

202

38.5

162.4

ABIT KT7A-RAID (KT133A / 133MHz)

197

37.4

149.6

ASUS A7V133 (KT133A / 133MHz)

197

37.6

153.4

EPoX EP-8KTA3 (KT133A / 133MHz)

196

36.7

146.3

MSI K7T Turbo (KT133A / 133MHz)

194

37.5

145.7

MSI K7T Pro2 (KT133 / 100MHz)

189

35.8

135.1

All of the SDRAM tested in this quick comparison, both DDR and SDR, was set to operate at CAS 2 at the most aggressive memory timings possible.

Here we see the performance benefit that DDR SDRAM offers over conventional PC133 SDRAM.?Unfortunately the only thing holding back DDR from widespread acceptance now is the fact that so many people have enough PC133 SDRAM that they do not wish to upgrade at this point in time.?DDR SDRAM needs to carry a more attractive price tag before people will begin to switch, either that or the performance improvement must be more pronounced.?

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