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First Mass Mainboard on NVIDIA nForce3 250: Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-250 Review (page 13)

Category: Chipsets

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 04/07/2004 | 03:15 PM ]

Performance in PCMark04

We devote a separate section to Futuremark PCMark04, since this benchmark is synthetic, rather than real, although uses real-life algorithms.

Just as I have mentioned above, mainboards on different chipsets show about the same performance. The results in PCMark04 depend on the speed of the processor and the memory controller, which is integrated in to the CPU in Athlon 64 architecture.

Performance in Office and Content Creation Applications

We traditionally use tests of the Winstone family to check out the system performance in ordinary Windows applications.

The results we got on different mainboards differ somewhat in these tests. The tests simulate work of a real user in a typical Windows environment and the disk subsystem and other factors affect the overall result. The SiS755-based mainboard shows the highest performance in the Winstone tests.