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*All benchmarks were run using the Tyan Tachyon G9700 Pro except for Viewperf 7.0 where the nVidia Quadro4 XGL980 was used.
BIOS Settings
Just by manipulating the different BIOS settings it is possible to substantially change the system performance. For the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, we were using BIOS revision 1002.001 with the following settings in the Advanced Chipset Features:
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CPU External Freq. CPU Frequency Multiple Setting CPU Frequency Multiple System Performance CPU Interface Memory Frequcency Resulting Frequency Memory Timings SDRAM Active Precharge Delay SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay SDRAM CAS Latency FSB Spread Spectrum AGP Spread Spectrum CPU Vcore Setting CPU Vcore Graphics Aperture Size AGP Frequency System BIOS Cacheable Video RAM Cacheable DDR Reference Voltage AGP VDDQ Voltage AGP 8X Support AGP Fast Write Capability |
[197 MHz]. [Menu] [11.0x] [User Defined] [Optimal] [100%] [197 MHz] [User Defined] [6] [2] [2] [2] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Menu] [1.700V] [128MB] [Auto] [Disabled] [Disabled] [2.6V] [1.5V] [Enabled] [Enabled] | Menu Level >> |
Setting the CPU interface from Optimal to Aggressive introduced some system instabilities. That is, the majority of benchmarks would still run without problems but occasionally, the system would crash. For the record, in some of the benchmarks, the resulting scores are included, in those cases, we differentiate between the (opt) and (agg) setting. If not further indicated, it means that the benchmark was run at the "Optimal" setting.
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