Review: EQS A72K9-CF

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 20 October 2005, 08:41

Tags: EQS

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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.