Media encoding, KribiBench, Raytracking, USB2.0
3.8GHz of Pentium 4 power is useful for something. That something is a time of 2m 42s for crunching through 611MB worth of wave files. Incidentally, it's U2's Pop album.
ATI's XPRESS 200 lives up to its name by just ousting an ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard's performance. The difference, once again, is neither here nor there.
There's something not quite right with the performance in KribiBench. The 6.24FPS average was repeatable run after run. Reinstallation of the benchmark didn't change matters. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact culprit for this sub-par performance. The signs point to an inefficient chipset driver.
I noticed relatively poor USB2.0 performance when transferring 7GB worth of HEXUS benchmarks via a Western Digital 160GB hard drive housed in a USB2.0 enclosure. Benchmarking said performance by transferring all 2,659 files from our custom UT2003 directory highlighted problems with ATI's USB2.0 implementation. This was confirmed with a HDTach benchmark that was considerably lower than an Intel 925XE's. Also note the far higher CPU utilisation from the ATI chipset. I'm hopeful that a driver update will cure this problem.
