Legit Motherboard Reviews
Asrock AM2V890-VSTA & MSI K9A Platinum Motherboards
| Manufacturer: | ASRock |
| Product: | AMD Socket AM2 Motherboards by VIA and ATI |
| Date: | Tue, Aug 22, 2006 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Jason Petermann - |
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The Tests: Overall System Performance and Memory Bandwidth
PCMark05:
PCMark05 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark05 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results.
Though it is only a 100 point difference, the MSI board clearly is the leader in our PCMark05 bench
Everest Version 2.20:
Everst 2.20 is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program for Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It also tests the actual read and write speeds of your memory giving a fairly accurate look of true memory performance.
Sisoft; Sandra 2005 SR3a:
Sisoft Sandra 2005 is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are, again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher numbers represent better performance in memory bandwidth. The chart was based off of the unbuffered bandwidth scores.
ScienceMark 2.0 Final:
Science Mark 2.0 is an attempt to put the truth behind benchmarking. In an attempt to model real world demands and performance, ScienceMark 2.0 is a suite of high-performance benchmarks that realistically stress system performance without architectural bias. All of our testing was completed on the 32 Bit Final benchmark version that is dated March 21st 2005.
Our memory badwidth testing shows that the boards are pretty much even, which should be the case with the memory controllor on the CPU itself.
Super PI Mod v1.5:
Super PI is a program a lot of enthusiasts use to benchmark overall system performance, as the program is capable of calculating pi up to 33.55 million digits on a timer. Many overclockers and enthusiasts are in a battle to get the lowest Super Pi times possible. We use the 2MB test this time, as it demands quite a bit more stability than a 1MB test. Of course, most believe using the 32MB test is a must to prove stability.
I was very impressed with these two boards and the scores they achieved in the SuperPi 2M test. It is a dead heat here, as they both performed very well.
Next Page - The Tests: 3D and Gaming Performance
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - A Look at the Boards
Page 2 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Specs Page 3 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Layout Page 4 - A Closer Look: The Asrock AM2V890-VSTA Bios Page 5 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Specs Page 6 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Layout Page 7 - A Closer Look: The MSI K9A Platinum Bios Page 8 - The Test Setup Page 9 - The Tests: Overall System Performance - World Bench 5 Page 10 - The Tests: Overall System Performance - World Bench 5 Continued Page 11 - The Tests: Overall System Performance and Memory Bandwidth Page 12 - The Tests: 3D and Gaming Performance Page 13 - The Tests: Overclocking Page 14 - The Conclusion |
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