System Setup
Hardware
- Jetway N2VIEW, Socket A, NVIDIA nForce2 IGP-128/333, AMD Athlon/Duron/Athlon XP, 26/11/2003 BIOS
- AMD Athlon XP3200+, 512KB L2, 11 x 200MHz, 2.2GHz
- Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80GB
- Corsair XMS3200LLPT, 2 x 256MB, DDR333, 2-2-2-6
- 64MB IGP framebuffer size
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP1
- NVIDIA Platform Driver 3.03
- NVIDIA Detonator 52.16
- MagicTwin 4.02.105
- 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
Notes
Like the PT800TWIN, the N2VIEW doesn't go up against any other boards by virtue of its uniqueness and lack of direct comparison systems (other IGP-128/333 nForce2 products). In the tests that aren't influenced too much by the onboard graphics I'll throw in commentary about how it compares to a high-end nForce2 Ultra 400 product, but apart from that, it goes up against itself. The performance delta when we load up station 2 with an average computing load is what we're interested in. What I did with the N2VIEW is identical to what I did with the PT800TWIN, so here's a judicious cut and paste.A load was generated on Station 2 by logging in at each reboot and running a copy of Windows Media Player 9, playing a DivX rip of The Score, along with a single instance of IE6 SP1, Wordpad and Windows Explorer. That provided a moderate CPU load (average of 18%) and memory load, along with some disk activity. Benchmarking something like MagicTwin is unscientific at best, but we're looking to see what effect the 18% CPU load, and reduced memory capacity available to Station 1, has on performance.
The PT800TWIN managed an average of 15% CPU load when doing the same things, so the Athlon XP is having to work a little harder for that same WMP/DivX load.
CPU-Z saw it like this.
