Asus P4S800DE SiS655 TX Motherboard

The Asus P4S800D-E  Motherboard
Pentium 4 Powered Performance With The SiS 655TX Chipset

By: Dave Altavilla
December 22, 2003

Content Creation 2003 and Business Winstone 2002 Desktop business and multimedia content creation performance

The Business and Content Creation Winstone benchmarks use a more traditional methodology of testing.  The test scripts run concurrent instances of the above applications on the test system desktop.  These Business Desktop and Content Creation software suites are fully installed and functional for each of the tests that are executed.

The SiS 655TX driven P4S800D-E shows its prowess again here, besting both the VIA PT880 and i875P boards by small margins.  It's interesting to note that the gap is slightly larger in the Biz Winstone test.  The CC Winstone test, is nip and tuck however, due mostly likely to slightly lower end drive performance from the 655TX.  Video and sound editing stress tests within CC Winstone 2003, can tax the drive subsystem more so than in the Biz Winstone 2002 tests.

FutureMark 3DMark 2003 FutureMark's Finest

FutureMark's 3DMark 2003 will give us an early indication general gaming performance.  Let's have a look...

Once again the Asus P4S800D-E comes out on top by a hair.  We're starting to see a pattern here that is tough to argue with.  We've said this before and we'll say it again, the numbers simply don't lie.  Although the SiS 655TX is only ahead by 100 or so 3DMarks here, since this test is so heavily graphics card dependant, that smallish looking lead is actually just a bit more significant that one might initially think.  We'll have a look at some real world gaming numbers shortly, to tell the rest of the story here.

SPEC Viewperf 7.1, Wolfenstein ET, UT2003 and The Heat Meter