ABIT SR7-8X (SiS 648): DDR400-Powered

Stress Testing the ABIT SR7-8X

One of the most impressive aspects of the SR7-8X was its ability to complete our entire benchmark suite and stress tests with both DDR333 and DDR400 memory. While we've witnessed plenty of motherboards that could complete our benchmark suites with DDR333 memory, this is the first DDR Pentium 4 motherboard we've seen that could finish our benchmark suite and stress tests with DDR400 memory without encountering a single problem (of course, this excludes the SiS 648 reference board that obviously won't be in the channel).

As usual, we started off our stress tests with Prime95. We decided to see if the SR7-8X could handle 48 hours straight of Prime95 torture tests with DDR400 memory. Much to our delight, the board was able to finish all Prime95 torture tests after two days straight of testing with DDR400. Certainly not bad at all.

Of course, our stress tests wouldn't be complete without testing the SR7-8X with all three DIMM slots filled with memory. We were able to complete our entire benchmark suite with all banks filled with Kingston DDR333 memory at CL2.5 (SPD timings). Going down to CL2 with all other timings the same yielded similar results; our benchmark suite didn't experience any failures, and Prime95 was rock solid to the end.

The Test

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