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abit KV8-MAX3
Written by Chris Emry
Friday, 04 September 2009 10:39
system became quite unstable. In the end, our congratulations go to ABIT for a job well done. If
the OCGuru software could have achieved this overclock for us, it would have been twice as
nice.
..:: SiSoft SANDRA ::..
The first benchmark we will be using today is SiSoft SANDRA, one of the most popular
synthetic benchmarking programs. In the CPU Arithmetic test, both Athlon64 motherboards are
able to pull ahead of the represented K7 board in the ALU test by roughly 5%, with the ABIT
KV8-MAX3 nudging ahead of the ASUS K8V Deluxe. The FPU test, however, shows us that the
two K8 boards are dead even in performance with the K7 platform when taking the margin of
error into account.
Moving on to the SANDRA CPU Multimedia tests, and after taking a look at these results, it
becomes obvious that both K8 motherboards are having a hard time in the integer tests. We are
using the latest release of SiSoft SANDRA (which claims it has support for the Athlon64) but we
are unsure why both Athlon64 boards are much slower than the K7 solution. At least the scores
for the K8 boards are consistent with each another. Whatever the case may be, the KV8-MAX3
again pulls ahead of ASUS’ solution by a small amount.
When we take a look at the SANDRA memory bandwidth tests, the massive gain in
performance from the K8 motherboards over the K7 board is because of the integrated memory
controller within the Athlon64 processor. Again, the KV8-MAX3 pulls ahead of the K8V Deluxe,
but the increase is by less than 1%. Hopefully ABIT’s new Athlon64 motherboard can hold this
lead in the rest of our benchmarking tests. Let’s see if it can, starting off with our own PriBench.
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