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Epox EP-8RDA+ Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, March 24, 2003
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
Epox EP-8RDA+ (3/5/2003 bios)
Soltek SL-75FRN-L (v1.3 Bios)
AMD Athlon XP2200+ Tbred processor
CoolerMaster xDream Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Soltek SL-75FRN-L (v1.3 Bios)
AMD Athlon XP2200+ Tbred processor
CoolerMaster xDream Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
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 2003.1.9.26
2x256 Corsair Platinum TwinX DDR400
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
For the most part we can conclude that from a synthetic benchmark standpoint both boards perform excatly the same, as they should considering that they are using the same version Northbridge.
Real world benchmarks are next.
Real world benchmarks are next.
