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In our last test, we give you Quake 3 Arena Time Demo scores
taken at a resolution of 640X480 at 16 bit color and 16 bit
textures. This will allow our motherboards and
processors to drive as many polygons are possible without
being limited by the graphics subsystem.
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Quake 3 Arena
Time Demo - CPU Test |
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Low Quality 16 Bit Testing for
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Once again the i850 shows a
slight lead that has been widened to about 6%. This
really isn't much of a lead at all in the grand scheme of
things and you would be hard pressed to actually noticed any
difference in frame rate, especially at higher resolutions.
Finally, again we see the P4B266 just barely edge out the
BD7-RAID due to its "cheated" front side bus speed at
2.22GHz, even though it was set to 2.2GHz exactly.
What more can we say about these
two top notch boards from Abit and Asus? Board design
with either of these motherboards, was well thought out and
served up with the utmost in quality. While the Asus
P4B266 has integrated 6 Channel HRTF Surround Sound from
C-Media and a USB 2.0 controller from NEC, the Abit BD7-RAID
has our favorite Highpoint RAID Controller on board and now
it's ATA133 compliant. While the Asus P4B266 has a bit
more headroom in over-clocking with its slightly higher BIOS
driven core voltage settings, the Abit BD7-RAID is not that
far behind especially with an imminent release of a BIOS
that will support higher core voltages. In the end,
you can pick and choose which options are more important to
you, USB2.0, RAID or higher end on board sound. For
now, we're calling this one a virtual "draw".
We're giving both the Abit
BD7-RAID and Asus P4B266 a HotHardware.com Heat Meter Rating
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