Benchmarks

Equipment used

• Intel Pentium 4 2.53Ghz
• Corsair XMS3000
• 256MB
• 166 MHz
• Albatron Geforce4 Ti4400
• 128MB
• 275/550 MHz
• Maxtor 4D040H2 DAH017K0 ATA100 40GB 5400rpm
• Samsung CD-R/RW SW-208B
• Antec TrueBlue 480W
  

Operating system and drivers

• Windows XP Professional
• Intel Chipset Software 4.10.1012
• Intel Application Accelerator 2.30
• VIA 4-in-1 Hyperion 4.45v
• NVidia DetonatorXP 40.72

All tests were run at least three times and memory settings from bios were By SPD.

FSB

FSB was checked with WCPUID 3.10. This test is essential because some manufacturers like to drive their boards with higher FSB speeds than 133.3 MHz because it results faster operation and higher scores. I've seen readings that are near 136 on some boards so these boards are quite well balanced. Albatron, Epox ja Gigabyte will gain some extra points on their scores because of this slightly higher FSB but lets see how much that really is.

Pifast

Pifast is very popular benchmarking program here in Finland. It will stress the CPU and CPU to memory bandwidth. Lower time is better. As you can see DFI's board has taken the last position and Soyo's VIA solution is leading. Not by much but still leading.

3DMark2001se

Everybody knows this program. :) As you can see from the results, no real differences in performance.

PcMark 2002

Albatron's board takes a thin lead in this benchmark that tests the CPU and memory performance.

Quake 3

Again a game that doesn't need any introductions. As expected DFI's NB78-HL and Soyo's P4X400 falls behind because of their lower FSB.

ViewPerf 7.0

SPEC ViewPerf will do some heavy rendering work and in this test again we see Soyo's board taking the lead.

Sandra CPU

I am not quite sure why Epox didn't match the performance of the Albatron's and Gigabyte's boards in this test. With higher FSB speeds they all should have received similar ratings but one was left behind.

Sandra CPU Multimedia

This chart is following the same pattern as the FSB chart did. Still the results are quite close to each other without any clear winners or losers.

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

Albatron's PX485PE pro II and Soyo's P4X400 seems to have beaten the others in this test but again we notice that the scores are inside a 2% margin so as with the other tests, no clear winners.

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