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Abit IS7 (Springdale) Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, May 26, 2003
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
Abit IS7 i865PE (Springdale)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
Stock Intel "Hybrid" Heatsink (copper core, radial design) /w AVC 5000rpm fan
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
Stock Intel "Hybrid" Heatsink (copper core, radial design) /w AVC 5000rpm fan
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Reference System
Soltek SL-85DR3 (i845PE)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4400 video card
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
For the skeptics out there the i845PE chipset will indeed run 800Mhz Pentium 4 processors and is usually attainable though a BIOS flash. This isn't a Bananas to Bananas comparison but will give a little context to these numbers.
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4400 video card
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
For the skeptics out there the i845PE chipset will indeed run 800Mhz Pentium 4 processors and is usually attainable though a BIOS flash. This isn't a Bananas to Bananas comparison but will give a little context to these numbers.
Wcpuid
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks
that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these where
recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2003.3.9.44
You will notice that Dual Channel memory controllers will post similar Integer and Floating Point scores in Sandra where as Single Channel controllers will lack in Floating point.
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
