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Ty4n Trinity Review: Bringing Extreme SLI to the AMD platform
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Sunday, April 01, 2007
Benchmarks - Synthetic
We only had this motherboard for a few weeks and between the times spent gaming and fraggin' at our Ninjalane Lan parties we only had time to run a few benchmarks before the system had to go back to the manufacturer.
The system as it was tested
Tyan Trinity S1598S
AMD K62+ 533Mhz Processor @ 600Mhz
3x Crucial SDRAM PC100
ATI Rage Pro
2x STB Voodoo2 in SLI
Promise FastTrack TX4310
4x 36gig Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA Drives
Linksys Gigabit Ethernet
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
16x DVD Rom
Mitsumi 3.5in Floppy drive
Windows 2000 SP4
AMD K62+ 533Mhz Processor @ 600Mhz
3x Crucial SDRAM PC100
ATI Rage Pro
2x STB Voodoo2 in SLI
Promise FastTrack TX4310
4x 36gig Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA Drives
Linksys Gigabit Ethernet
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
16x DVD Rom
Mitsumi 3.5in Floppy drive
Windows 2000 SP4
Reference System
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Intel 975X Express Chipset
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
CPU-Z
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 were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2007.9.10.105
Given that we did spare no expense it only seemed fitting to run a speed test on the Raid controller. Promise 4+0 Stripe/RAID0 (SCSI) Read Performance - Not to shabby but I think it could do better, maybe due to a processor limitation?
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
Synthetic Conclusion
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions.
Our AMD system came up a little short in the synthetic tests but it was determined that a rash of bad drivers were the cause for most of the performance issues.
Our AMD system came up a little short in the synthetic tests but it was determined that a rash of bad drivers were the cause for most of the performance issues.
