System Setup
Hardware
- ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe, Socket 478, SiS655TX, Pentium4
- DFI LANPARTY i865PE, Socket 478, Intel i865PE, Pentium 4, 19/12/2003 BIOS
- ASUS K8V Deluxe, Socket 754, VIA K8T800 Athlon 64, 1005.011 BIOS
- AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+, 1MB L2, 10 x 200MHz
- Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz, 512KB L2, 16 x 200MHz
- Western Digital WD360 Raptor, SATA, 36.2GB (ASUS K8V, ASUS P4S800D-E)
- IBM 120GXP, PATA, 40GB (DFI)
- ATI Radeon 9800XT (412/730)
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP1
- ATI CATALYST 4.1 and Control Panel
- SiS AGP driver 1.17, SiS IDE driver 2.04a, SiS RAID driver 1.05 (ASUS P4S800D-E)
- VIA Hyperion 4.51v (ASUS K8V)
- Intel 5.02.1002 chipset drivers (DFI)
- HEXUS Pifast v41
- Simplisoft HDTach 2.61
- Kribi Bench 1.19
- Sciencemark 2.0
- 3DMark 2001SE v330
- Quake3 v1.30 HQ (four demo)
- LAME 3.92MMX MP3 Encoding(192CBR, U2's Pop album)
- Realstorm Ray Tracing
- X2: The Threat - Rolling Demo
There'll be pretty simple graphs this time around. The 3.2GHz Northwood drives the ASUS along with a DFI board powered by Springdale-PE and a PAT BIOS, plus my base K8V with a Model 3200+ Athlon 64.
As always, hit the forums if you have any questions about our testing methods. Everything is run three times with the high and low results discarded, the median used for the graphed results.