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
Hard Drive(s):
Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA 66 7200 RPM
Bus Master Drivers:
VIA 4-in-1 v4.24 Service Pack
Video Card(s):
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
Video Drivers:
NVIDIA Detonator 5.22
Operation System(s):
Windows 98 SE
Motherboard Revision:
MSI K7T Turbo Revision 3

 

Windows 98 Performance

Athlon 1GHz OEM
Sysmark 2000
Content Creation
Winstone 2000
Quake III Arena - 640 x 480 x 16
MSI K7T Turbo (KT133A/133MHz)
194
37.5
145.7
ABIT KT7A-RAID (KT133A/133MHz)
197
37.4
149.6
EPoX EP-8KTA3 (KT133A/133MHz)
196
36.7
146.3
Microstar K7T Pro2 (KT133/100MHz)
189
35.8
135.1

 

Although the performance of these three boards are very close to each other, the ABIT K7TA-RAID does manage to edge out the others a bit to claim the overall performance crown.

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