- Joined
- Jun 16, 2003
- Location
- Cranberry Twp. PA
Today, my MSI matx ATI chipset board arrived. Tomorrow my winny3200 will arrive. I know this should be in MSI boards however in this thread, I'm going to drop some real world tests with this board vs the Asus k8n SLI board as a reference for the ATI vs NF4SLI chipset. I know there's benches out there but I don't trust any real benchmark sites 'sept HardOCP and AnAndtech.
In both systems, I'm going to use a winny3200, 2x512mb Mushkin pc3500 dual channel 2-2-2-5 @ 200mhz, xfx 6600gt @ stock, wd1000 pata hard drive, audigy 2 non-zs, and factory-defualt-optomized bios settings.
The tests will run something along the lines of this:
CSS/HL2
D3
UT2k4 (If I can find the cds)
Farcry
3d01
3d03
Aquamark
Sandra mem/cpu arith and multimedia
The hard drive will be formatted, defraged, chipset drivers, defrag, video drivers, defrag, sound drivers, degrag.
Each test will be run three times with a restart inbetween and I will report each result. After a benchmark is done, the next program will be installed on top of it. I am doing this so that it simulates more of a normal use, eg not a fresh install each time you want to play a game.
I hope to start showing results in the next couple of days.
In both systems, I'm going to use a winny3200, 2x512mb Mushkin pc3500 dual channel 2-2-2-5 @ 200mhz, xfx 6600gt @ stock, wd1000 pata hard drive, audigy 2 non-zs, and factory-defualt-optomized bios settings.
The tests will run something along the lines of this:
CSS/HL2
D3
UT2k4 (If I can find the cds)
Farcry
3d01
3d03
Aquamark
Sandra mem/cpu arith and multimedia
The hard drive will be formatted, defraged, chipset drivers, defrag, video drivers, defrag, sound drivers, degrag.
Each test will be run three times with a restart inbetween and I will report each result. After a benchmark is done, the next program will be installed on top of it. I am doing this so that it simulates more of a normal use, eg not a fresh install each time you want to play a game.
I hope to start showing results in the next couple of days.