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| AMD Athlon XP2800+ The Truce of the AntiMatter | |
| (Review by MS, October 1, 2002) |
Test Configuration
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In all cases, the CMOS settings were adjusted to the most aggressive configuration, that is, 2:2:2 memory latency settings, (1T CMD rate and 4 bank interleaving where available). Onboard sound and modem were disabled in the BIOS. Vsync and TrueForm were disabled.
Why different platforms for the Athlon XP 2800?
As shown above, we were using different test beds for the benchmarking and there is a rather simple explanation for that. The nForce2 chipset is very mature already and approaching the final release date. The mainboards are already very stable and fast, however, as we will show, there are still some performance issues in various applications. For exactly this reason we do what is usually a No-No and pick the best of both worlds. That is we'll use those benchmark results that show the highest scores, regardless of what platform was used. Flame me, blame me or discuss it on the LostCircuits BBS but we are interested in processor performance and not beta-bug-chasing of pre-released hardware. In the end, it'll come down to the nForce2 in most applications anyway and we'll list the other scores, too, just to be on the safe side.
To give one example of what we are talking about, here are the detailed scores of Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001
The nForce2 board had some difficulties with Business Winstone 2001, even using the identical HDD, there is quite a gap towards the VIA KT400-based A7V8X. Using the Seagate Barracuda SATA V with its Serial ATA interface and 8 MB onboard cache, the scores skyrocket. In other words, if the HDD is the limiting performance factor we don't feel comfortable to even use this benchmark further but hey, see whether you find anyone who beats our score.
Another benchmark that would plain and simply not run on the nForce2 board is PCMark2002, for the record, here are the scores on the A7V8X at default speed with memory running at 166 MHz:
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