FIC AD11 Socket-A AMD 760 DDR ATX
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 13, 2001 1:57 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.
Test Configuration |
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Processor(s): |
AMD
Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
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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
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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
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Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 5.22
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Operation System(s): |
Windows
98 SE
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Motherboard Revision: |
FIC
AD11 Revision 1.2
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Windows 98 Performance |
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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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