ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard - ABIT IC7-MAX3

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ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard

 

 

Benchmarks
We'll be using the benchmark programs detailed below.

 

Benchmark Programs

• PCMark2002

• 3DMark01 SE Build330

• 3DMark03

• UT2k3 with [H]ard Bench

• AquaMark v2.3

• SiSoft Sandra 2003 (OCA Edition)

• Code Creatures

 

System Setup

• CPU - Intel 3.0c 800MHz FSB P4 and Intel 2.4c

• Motherboard - ABIT IC7-G MAX3 Advance, ABIT BH7, IT7-MAX V2 and ABIT NF7-S V1.2

• CPU Cooler - Stock

• Memory - 2 x512MB OCZ Dual Channel EL PC4000

• Video Card - ATi Radeon 9700 OCS Level3 SE

• HD - Western Digital SE 8MB IDE ATA/100

• MS Windows XP Professional Updated with the latest service packs and DX9

• ATI Catalyst 3.7 Video Card Drivers

 

 

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SISOFT CPU

 

 

The IC7-MAX3 runs shows similar performance to other Canterwood based boards here and that is what we expected. You'll see vast improvements over Intel's older 845 based motherboards. I also threw in some Barton scores just for kicks and the NF7-S coupled with a Barton 2500+ makes a strong showing for FPU performance.

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SISOFT Multi-Media

 

 

We also see similar numbers across the board for Canterwood boards, and they are also faster than boards with other chipsets. Let's checkout memory scores.

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SISOFT Memory

 

 

Here we see the IC7-MAX3 excel in memory scores over all other motherboards. I suspect ABIT engineers went through the BIOS and tweaked a few settings and this is showing better performance in this synthetic benchmark. We haven't even enabled Game Accelerator. More on that later.

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