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Foxconn Winfast N570SM2AA Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Sunday, October 08, 2006
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
Foxconn N570SM2AA nForce 570 SLI Chipset
Athlon64 3500+ 512K L2 Cache 940pin AM2
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair Twin2X 5400C4PRO DDR667 (4-4-4-12) 512megs
2x Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express (SLI)
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Athlon64 3500+ 512K L2 Cache 940pin AM2
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair Twin2X 5400C4PRO DDR667 (4-4-4-12) 512megs
2x Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express (SLI)
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Reference System
DFI LanParty SLI-DR (nVidia nForce4 SLI)
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair ProSeries TwinX 3200XL DDR400 512megs
2x Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express (SLI)
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Athlon64 3200+ 512KB L2 Cache 939pin
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair ProSeries TwinX 3200XL DDR400 512megs
2x Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express (SLI)
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 2007.5.10.98
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. Aside from 200Mhz the only major difference between the two systems is the memory architecture. (ie. DDR vs. DDR2) and even that doesn't change things much in this scenario.
