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There are 11 parts to this review, please use the pulldown below to browse sections or simply hit "Next" at the bottom of each section to continue

Author: Michael (Oreo) Falcon
Date: 1-14-02
Subject: Motherboard
Manufacturer: ASUS

Synthetic and Software/Production Benchmarking

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SiSoft Sandra ver 2000.5.8.11 has become a standard for many end users/builders to compare their systems to others. These benchmarks are quoted on every website you find and are almost the cornerstone of bragging rights. In the CPU Benchmark, the Tiger MP holds a slight advantage over the Tyan MPX and the Asus A7M266-D in the ALU category but in the FPU results, it's virtually a dead heat. When looking at the Multi-Media results the A7M266-D is leading the way by edging out the Tiger MP and MPX motherboards. In the Memory test the Tiger MPX posts some impressive memory marks followed by the A7M266-D and the Tiger MP. Here we are given an example of the extra muscle the MPX chipset has.

(Click thumbnail benchmarks below on this page to see larger versions)


SiSoft Sandra CPU

SiSoft Sandra Multimedia

SiSoft Sandra Memory

Content Creation Winstone 2001 ver 1.01 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance. Content Creation will keep several applicationsat once and switches among those applications. Programs used during this are Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 8.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.73, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5.


Content Creation

The Tiger MP is the leader of the pack here with a score of 74. We see the MP holds a 1.3 point advantage over the Tiger MPX and a 3.8 point advantage over the Asus A7M266-D. So, what does this mean? Well our performance is compared to a base machine's performance score. This base system scores a 10 when running the test. Our scores indicate that all three systems are running just over 7 times better/faster than the base system. For more info on the base system and setup information you can go HERE

Business Winstone 2001 ver 1.01 is another system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance. Business Winstone runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.


Business Winstone

The same base system comparison is used in Business Winstone that was used in the Content Creation benchmark to produce the performance score. Again, the Tiger MP holds a slight advantage over the Tiger MPX and the A7M266-D. In this test, the A7M266-D has made up some ground and is performing on par with its Tyan counterpart. The actual difference in performance is less than .1% compared to the Tiger MPX. In addition, the overall difference between the Tiger MP and the A7M266-D is a minimal 1.4%. Not really an earth shattering difference.

POV-Ray creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the viewpoint of a camera also described in the text file. I ran the Pawn benchmark. In the graph, legend below you will see several different optimizations used to run the tests. The optimized coding is the only difference between each test. There is quite a difference achieved by optimized coding alone.


POV Ray

Smaller numbers are better as this reflects the time it takes in seconds to complete the rendering. The A7M266-D ties for the lead in these tests with the Tiger MPX. Again, the differences are minimal.

CLI Bench MK III SMP is as stated on the web page, a different benchmarking solution. This benchmark runs a gamut of synthetic benchmarks that includes: Dhrystones, Whetstones, Eight queens' problem, Matrix operations, Number Crunching, Floating point, memory throughput, hard disk's throughput and the CPU usage.


Clibench

Clibench 2

The A7M266-D again performs dead on with the Tyan competition. So far, Asus' first offering of a Dual AMD platform looks to be dead on target.

Science Mark 1.0 will measure the performance of your computer by the execution of a few tests, including the simulation of liquid argon, energy calculation of H2O, and the like. When comparing the three tests, smaller numbers are better.


Science Mark 1.0

The score is a result of a comparison to a base system, which has a final score of 100. Well look at that, another dead heat. The A7M266-D edges out the Tyan boards with a score of 110.64. FYI, this test does not support SMP and is run entirely on one processor only.

Cinebench 2000 is another benchmarking program that uses raytracing to test the CPU for performance. This benchmark also supports SMP as evident in the multiple CPU raytracing result.


Cinebench

Larger numbers here are better. I am sure you are wondering what a CB unit is. Well the explanation that is given is using a reference system of a Pentium 133 MHz. The result represents how much faster your system is than the reference. Notice the increase in performance with the utilization of both processors in the Raytracing (Multi CPU) result. Again, the margin that separates the A7M266-D is minimal.

SPECviewperf 6.1.2 parses command lines and data files, sets the rendering state, and converts data sets to a format that can be traversed usingL rendering calls. It renders the data set for a pre-specified amount of time or number of frames with animation between frames. Finally, it outputs the result. SPECviewperf reports performance in frames per second. In this benchmark, higher numbers are better.


SpecView Performance

Looking at these results again shows that Asus is running on par with the Tyan platforms.

© 2002 Michael (Oreo) Falcon



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