ABIT IS7 Motherboard Review - ABIT IS7 Motherboard Review
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(Benchmarking Continued...)
Memory Bench
WOW! Is it just me or is that downright impressive? Dual channel mode is definitely showing it's brute stregth, or more accurately, it's increased memory bandwidth in these numbers. The gain seen by the single channel memory of the IC7-G over the BH7 can clearly be attributed to the extra front side bus of the new C revision P4. While it's not in the graph (I still can't believe I didn't put it in there) the single channel score we achieved with the IS7 is right in line with the Canterwood, an ever so slightly lower 2899/2913. Not too shabby, but downright pitiful compared to what this board is capable of utilizing the Dual Channel DDR.
PCMark2002
Judging by the scores above it would appear as if PCMark is more CPU speed dependant and less front side bus speed dependant. The only real noteable stat from above is the Canterwoods more than slight edge this time in memory performance overclocked versus the Springdale.
3DMark01SE Build 330
At this point the trend is pertty much set in stone. Only two things were kind of suprising here. One is that the BH7 utilizing yesteryears chipset actually edged the FIC Springdale board at 3GHz and that the IS7 hung pretty much exactly with the IC7-G at overclocked speeds. I actually reran the benchmark three times at overclocked settings with the IS7 to see if it was a fluke. Considering that the IC7-G beat the IS7 by a small margin at default speeds, I expected that trend to continue. It did not, the Springdale driven IS7 hung with the big boys on this popular synthetic benchmark.
AquaMark V2.3
Now here using Aquamark the IC7-G came thru with higher low and high marks, but the IS7 was able to show a bit more staying power and pulled ahead by just a wee bit in the average score. Nothing earth shattering, but impressive all the same.
Comanche 4
Now here the benchmarks actually go back and forth from making sense according to what we've seen, to doing complete role reversals. When you consider that the margin from top to bottom, overclocked or not, is 12 frames per second, it leads me to believe that the video card is actually the bottleneck here. That strikes me as odd considering that we're using an OCS Level III Radeon 9700 Pro, but there's really not another logical determination to make.
Benchmaking, Overclocking, and conclusion on next page...
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