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System Specifications
| CPU |
AMD Athlon64 3200+ |
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Memory |
Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL
Pro |
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Hard Drive |
Maxtor D740X (80Gb) |
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Video Card |
PNY GeForce 6800 GT
Clocked: 400/1050 |
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Audio |
(On Board) |
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Operating System |
Windows XP Professioanl
Service Pack 2 |
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nForce Driver |
4.27 |
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GeForce Driver |
61.77 |
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As a
baseline I ran the system in a default configuration first. Default 200MHz front
side bus and default RAM timings on the Corsair TwinX1024-XL-3200PRO system ram.
As with most motherboards, the system bus is fudged just a little, by one
megahertz. Not a big deal, but it will let the board pull ahead ever so
slightly in a head to head shoot-out of another motherboard that were
clocked dead at 200Mhz.
The first
set of benchmark scores we'll look at are from SiSoftware Sandra:
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The score
show a lot of the same thing we've already seen. The Arithmetic (Dhrystone and
Whetstone) and the Multi-Media (Integer and Floating Point) benchmarks are
pretty much on par from what we saw with the VIA K8T800 chipset. The Memory
Bandwidth (both Integer and Floating Point) performance however is quite a bit
lower than the VIA K8T800 counterparts.
PC Mark 2004
Total Index |
4233 |
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CPU |
4031 |
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Memory |
3437 |
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Graphics |
8359 |
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Hard Drive |
3507 |
Future
mark PC Mark 2004 is a relatively even-field benchmark that gauges a
computers power by noting performance in real-world applications. The
GeForce 6800GT really steals the show in that benchmark. The let down here
is that all of these scores are lower than what we achieved with the VIA
K8T800 chipset equipped motherboard from Albatron, the K8X800 Pro II.
However, we are not finished because this board can do something that board
can not -- Overclock.
3D Mark Benchmark Scores
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3D Mark 2001 |
21,710 |
Game Test 1
Car Chase (LOW) |
300.4 fps |
Game Test 1
Car Chase (HIGH) |
94.6 fps |
Game Test 2
Dragothic (LOW) |
404.5 fps |
Game Test 2
Dragothic (HIGH) |
213.9 fps |
Game Test 3
Lobby (LOW) |
261.1 fps |
Game Test 3
Lobby (HIGH) |
115.1 fps |
Game 4
Nature |
178.9 fps |
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3D Mark 2003 |
10,979 |
Game Test 1
Wings of Fury |
264.8 fps |
Game Test 2
Battle of ProxyCon |
77.3 fps |
Game Test 3
Trolls Lair |
78.5 fps |
Game Test 4
Nature |
64.3 fps |
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CPU TEST 1 |
101.4 fps |
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CPU TEST 2 |
14.4 fps |
Sound Test
No Sounds |
57.1 fps |
Sound Test
24 Sounds |
47.4 fps |
Sound Test
60 Sounds |
N/A |
Something else the Asus K8N-E
Deluxe can do is actually get 3D Mark 03 to score sound tests!
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3D Mark 2005 |
4177 |
Game Test 1
Return to
Proxyconn |
18.2 fps |
Game Test 2
Firefly Forest |
12.5 fps |
Game Test 3
Canyon Flight |
20.4 fps |
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CPU TEST 1 |
2.0 fps |
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CPU TEST 2 |
3.7 fps |
Ouch! 3D
Mark 05 slams the system with some VERY grueling tests. While there are already
some systems out there posting VERY good 3DM05 scores, this one squeaks by with
a marginal. The CPU tests are the most demanding, not even holing 5 Frames per
Second on either test. With this round of benchmarking complete, we now have a
base ling to judge our Overclock upon. Since the Asus K8N-E Deluxe does lock
down the PCI and AGP bus, we'll be taking advantage of that next.
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