Soltek SL-75FRV Motherboard Review

Serious Sam is a great looking game with really large maps and even with conservative settings will tax even the fastest of computers. I used default settings for this benchmark. (a few frames behind the reference system, hummm..)

My personal favorite, Quake 3. FYI, The four demo comes with the 1.30 point release of Quake 3 and sometimes goes away when you upgrade.

I used a multi-player demo called checkpoint for this benchmark. If you wish to try it yourself the demo file can be downloaded from the following website http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/rtcw-checkpoint.php

The best of the best when it comes to real world benchmarks, this free program is available from eTesting Labs and uses real programs to test the overall performance of your computer. These programs include: Adobe Photoshop 6, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Macromedia Director 8.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7, Netscape Navigator 6.01, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c

It would appear that my switch to WinXP threw my scores off since after 5 runs this is the best score I got. The same goes for the Business Winstone below.

Business Winstone is quite similar to the Content Creation benchmark but uses programs that you would most likely use in the office. These programs include Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Project 98, Lotus Notes R5, NicoMak WinZip, Norton AntiVirus, and Netscape Communicator.

Here is a realworld benchmark to give us an idea as to how well the system will perform in a "workstation" environment. For more information about this benchmark and what it can and cannot do please refer to this page http://www.specbench.org/gpc/opc.static/viewperf.htm

Reference values in yellow are from the Soltek SL-75DRV5 Review running an Athlon XP 1700+ at default speed on Win2k.