3D System Tests
Some tests to stress the AGP controller now, which K8T800 implements on the northbridge. This should help us evaluate the boards a bit better; the CPU is a bigger part of the motherboard performance equation than it used to be, since the memory controller jumped ship and swam to CPU Island.
A win for the Albatron again. The higher driven clock and memory controller performance account for the free frames per second. 3DMark 2001SE now. Can we edge any closer to 21000 marks at stock CPU speed?
Nearly 300 marks on what the ASUS could manage and a full 100 clear of the Biostar. Quite impressive and not completely explained by its slightly faster CPU speed. I'll put the rest down to the 4.49v Hyperion drivers, it seems like a good bet for the extra marks.
Hmm, a dropoff here, compared to the other K8T800s. Comfortably faster than anything the P4 could come up with, games love streaming data using the L2 cache memory on the CPU, it was nonetheless a little slower than the other boards using the same CPU and chipset combination. Either a bad set of runs, or some difference to be explained by the Hyperion driver set. Not slow, but a little blip worth pointing out.