ASUS A7V8X (KT400): The Athlon Gets DDR400
by Evan Lieb on September 6, 2002 11:46 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Stress Testing the ASUS A7V8X
The ASUS A7V8X was fairly solid throughout all of our benchmarks and stress tests. We were a bit skeptical as to what would happen with this motherboard seeing as how VIA's P4PB 400 (based on the P4X400 Pentium 4 chipset) wasn't exactly flawless during our stress tests or benchmarks.
We ran Prime95 for 24 hours with one stick of Twinmos DDR400 memory in bank 2. There were zero failures during this time. It's interesting to note that our first attempt in starting up Prime95's torture tests was met with an immediate failure after just one minute from startup. However, as we just mentioned, we were able to run torture tests for 24 hours straight after that. We don't know if the first failure was just a fluke or something else.
We also filled all 3 DIMMS with DDR333 memory and performed our usual array of stress tests to see if the A7V8X would give in. Much to our delight, we didn't uncover any issues whatsoever running 3 sticks of DDR333 at CAS2, Turbo mode, and all other timings at their fastest. No issues were found running Prime95 Torture Tests for about 24 hours, and we didn't experience any problems rerunning our entire benchmark suite as well. All in all, the A7V8X was rock solid with DDR333 memory in all of our configurations, settings, and stress tests.
The Test
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Performance Test Configuration |
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UPDATE: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
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| RAM: |
256MB Twinmos DDR333 CAS2.5 module (M368L3223CTL-C (L) B3)
256MB Twinmos DDR400 CAS2.5 module |
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| Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 120GB 7200 RPM
Special Edition (8MB Buffer)
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| Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.42
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| Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA
GeForce4 Ti 4600
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| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 30.82
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| Operation System(s): |
Windows
XP Professional
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The AnandTech Motherboard Testbed was Sponsored by Newegg. You can buy the components we used to test at www.newegg.com.
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SoSolid - Saturday, July 26, 2003 - link
Today I discoverd that the fifth PCI slot of my Gigabyte GA-7VTXE+ was malfuntioning. As a Gigabyte fan my first thought was to buy a new Gigabyte mothterboard.However I recall it was much more expensive than the upcoming 333MHz boards. So I decided to look around for an other board. Today I heared about the Asus A7V8X-X. After reading various information and this review I believe buying the A7V8X(-X) will be the right choice.