System Setup and Notes
| EQS A72K9-CF Test System | |
| Processor | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz, 1MiB L2 cache, Socket 939 |
| Mainboards | EQS A72K9-CF (ATI RS482) Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MiB DDR 2-2-2-5 @ 400MHz, 1T |
| Graphics Cards | ATI RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition PEG16X |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, SP2 |
| Mainboard Software | ATI CATALYST 5.9 Mainboard GART + SB450 ATI CATLYST 5.7 IGP + SB450 |
| Graphics Driver Software | ATI CATALYST 5.4 |
Benchmark Software
HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm Raytracing 2004
CINEBENCH 2003 multi-CPU render
picCOLOR 32-bit v4.0
KribiBench v1.1
Notes
The EQS mainboard is pitted against what's generally agreed to be the finest ATI-based non-Crossfire board on the market: the Sapphire PURE Innovation A9RX480. Tarinder concluded in his review of that board that basic board performance was great and barring some issues with USB storage speeds it was up there with the rest of its high-end class.Comparing it to the EQS is therefore a prudent task.
As always, benchmarks were run three times and the median result reported. If any benchmark result was spurious in any way, all collected results were discarded for that benchmark and the test was rerun until consistent results were obtainable. If you have any question or queries about how we test a mainboard, please visit the HEXUS.community.