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Posted by Thomas
McGuire on December 07, 2001
Manufacturer: Abit Product:
KG7-RAID Socket A Motherboard
For
the more, ehh, synthetic tests the ever reliable SiSoft
Sandra from SiSoftware
was used. First up being the Multi-Media benchmark.
Of
most note for this test is that the 1.2 GHz Thunderbird
performs roughly as well as the reference Pentium 4 1.6GHz,
while bearing slightly faster Integer performance the
Pentium 4 nudges ahead with its Floating-Point performance.
Although the other reference CPUs all clearly perform better
as you could expect. Now for the Arithmetic
benchmark.
Once
more the AMD 1.2 GHz performs relatively closely to the
Pentium 4 1.6GHz, boasting a bit over 10% greater ALU
(Arithmetic-Logic Unit) performance,
though Pentium 4 1.6GHz offers much better FPU (Floating
Point Unit) performance.
Next
up is the Memory bandwidth test. As you may recall
the initial series of VIA based Motherboards weren’t very
well received given the rather poor Memory
bandwidth/performance of them. Let’s see if the KG7 RAID
is an improvement in this area.
Memory
bandwidth performance was quite good compared to the
reference systems (bar the Pentium 4, RDRAM system),
although I’d suspect performed not as well as expected
given it was operating at only 100Mhz (As mentioned earlier
the RAM in the system was 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM). Finally up
was the File System (Hard Drive) benchmark.
Hard
drive performance was slightly lower than with the reference
ATA100 Hard Drive although this could be down to using the
Hard Drive which Windows XP resided on or the VIA IDE
Drivers which shipped with Windows XP. As mentioned earlier
I ended up having to reinstall Windows XP after updating the
IDE Drivers before so scoring an extra 100 in a synthetic
benchmark wasn’t a major concern of mine.
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