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Let's fire up our most favorite Direct 3D System Performance
Benchmark,
3DMark 2001 from MadOnion.com.
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Head-to-Head / Performance Progression BD7-RAID Vrs. P4B266
and The i850 |
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The gloves are off for Abit
and Asus |
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The i850 board we used for
reference in this test was none other than the current HH
Lab Editor's Choice,
Abit TH7II-RAID.
All boards were tested on a level playing field with the on
board Intel EIDE controllers driving the ATA100 interface to
our IBM hard drives. No RAID setups were used in any
of these tests. Clearly, we see that Intel's i845 DDR
solution is within a 2 - 3% striking distance from the i850/RAMBUS
platform. However, as we all know, the i845D comes at
a much better price point. The BD7-RAID and
P4B266, also in this test, are again within the standard
variance of each other that this benchmark can produce between different
runs. Also, don't forget about the slightly goosed
Asus PLL Clock, that we mentioned in page 3, that
could be giving the P4B266 a few extra points here.
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Winstone
Benchmarks |
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Tools of the trade
benchmarking: Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 , Adobe Premiere
6.0 , Macromedia Director 8.5 , Macromedia Dreamweaver
UltraDev 4 etc... |
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In the Business and Content
Creation Winstone Tests, you'll notice a few interesting
points of reference. Both i845D boards actually
performed on par or better than the i850/RAMBUS combination
on the Business side of things. Also, Abit's RAID
setup on the BD7-RAID drove it into the lead with better I/O
performance in its hard disk subsystem. In the Content
Creation Winstone however, bandwidth is king and so is the
i850 with RDRAM. Once again, the margin of
lead is slim and all products fell within 4% of each other.
And again, Asus' slightly over-clocked stock CPU setting puts it
ever so slightly in the lead, when compared to the BD7-RAID
with a standard ATA100 drive and even with a RAID setup.
Is it time for Asus to come clean here and tell the
community why they clock their boards slightly higher than
the stock clock speed setting is reporting? We'll
leave that question for the more "controversial" sites to
tackle.
Quake 3 and The
Ratings
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