System setup and notes
Hardware and Software
Test Platforms
| System | ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 System | ABIT AX8 S939 System | EPoX 5LWA+ System |
| Processor(s) | AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 | AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 | Intel Pentium 4 660 |
| Mainboard | ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 | ABIT AX8 VIA K8T890 | EPoX 5LWA+ 925XE |
| Memory | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | 1GByte (2x512MB) Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 | Memory timings | 2-2-2-5 1T | 2-2-2-5 1T | 4-4-4-12 |
| Graphics Card | ATI RADEON X850 XT PE - PEG16X - CATALYST 5.3 | Disk Drive | 160GB WD IDE & 36GB SATA Raptor |
| BIOS Version | BIOS 13 - 25th April 2005 | BIOS 10 - 25th February 2005 | 23 February 2005 |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, SP2 | ||
| Mainboard Software | NVIDIA ForceWare 6.39 platform driver | VIA Hyperion Pro v4.55 | Intel INF Update Utility 6.3.0.1007 |
Benchmark Software
HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
CINEBENCH 2003 multi-CPU render
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.97a (Intel HT compiler) - 701MB WAV
picCOLOR 32-bit v4.0
KribiBench v1.1
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1
Simpli Software's HDTach 3.01
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark2001SE b330
UT2003 Bot Match
Notes
As a comparison, ABIT's Fatal1ty AN8 will be benchmarked against another ABIT board, this time the VIA K8T890-powered AX8. Completing the trio is an estabilshed Intel i925XE motherboard from EPoX and a Pentium 4 660 (3.6GHz, 2MB L2 cache) Prescott CPU. No problems to report during testing. Benchmarks were carried out three times and the highest and lowest results were discarded. The running speed of the setups was as follows:
3630.8MHz - EPoX 5LWA+ (i925XE) - Intel Pentium 4 660
2411.2MHz - ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 (nForce4 Ultra) - AMD Athlon 64 FX-53
2405.4MHz -ABIT AX8 (VIA K8T890) - AMD Athlon 64 FX-53