EPoX 8K7A+ Evaluation

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Test Setup

Productivity

• Ziff-Davis Business Winstone 2001 v 1.01
• Ziff-Davis Content Creation Winstone 2001 v 1.01
• Ziff-Davis Winbench 99 (Disk test only) v 1.2

Synthetic

• Cachemem 2.6
• SiSoft SANDRA 2001te

Games

• Quake 3 Arena v 1.16n and 1.27g
• Expendable – downloadable demo version
• Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing v 1.19beta
• Giants: Citizen Kabuto v 1.4
• MDK2 – gold version
• Evolva -Downloadable demo version

Benchmark set up

Windows 2000 (productivity) – SP2, DirectX 8.0a, FAT32 – Administrator rights.

Windows 98SE (games) – Gold + IE 5.5 SP1 + DirectX 8.0a

Hardware:

• Socket A Athlon "Thunderbird", 1.33GHz (1333MHz – 266MHz FSB) with 256KB on-die, full speed cache
• Hercules 3D Prophet II Pro 64MB (200MHz core, 400MHz memory)
• IBM 15GB 75GXP 7200 rpm with 2MB cache
• Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! value.
• Diamond Data 52X CD ROM
• NEC 1.44MB floppy disk drive

Variables

• Abit KT7A rev 1.1, ZT BIOS, 256MB Kingmax PC150
• Iwill KA266 rev 1.3, May 08 BIOS, 256MB Crucial DDR
• EPoX 8K7A rev 1.1, July 08 BIOS, 256MB Crucial DDR

Drivers (W2K)

• NVIDIA Detonator driver v 12.41 – 1024 x 768 x 16bit @ 75Hz.
• AMD miniport driver v 5.22 (8K7A)
• VIA AGP driver version 4.05c (KT7A)
• ALi AGP driver version 1.74 (KA266)

Drivers (Windows 98SE)

• NVIDIA Detonator driver v 12.41 – 1024 x 768 x 16bit @ 75Hz.
• AMD miniport driver version 4.80
• VIA AGP driver version 4.05c (KT7A)
• ALi AGP driver version 1.70 (KA266)

Tweaks

• Sounds – Off (W2K, 98SE)
• Menu animations disabled (W2K, 98SE)
• 256MB permanent swap file (98SE)
• EPoX BIOS Tweaks
• IWill BIOS Tweaks
• Abit BIOS Tweaks

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