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We ran Expendable at 133/166 and 166/166 MHz (CPU/memory bus) at 12.5 x 133 and 10 x 166 MHz for 1667 MHz in both cases. The average frame rates increased from 157 to 166 fps at the higher bus speed

A roughly 6% performance increase at the same clock speed is quite impressive for Expendable

One question is how the KT3 compares to the competition in form of the Shuttle AK35GT2 and the ASUS A7V333. There is only one way to find out which is to run it with the same CPU (in this case the XP2100+) at the most aggressive timing settings, that is, in this case we set the "Fast Command" to Ultra to squeeze out the last bit of performance

The KT3 and its competitors are pretty much in a dead race here.

One question is how the KT3 compares to the competition in form of the Shuttle AK35GT2 and the ASUS A7V333. There is only one way to find out which is to run it with the same CPU (in this case the XP2100+) at the most aggressive timing settings, that is, in this case we set the "Fast Command" to "Ultra" to squeeze out the last bit of performance

Quake3 Arena

The grandmother of all gaming benchmarks shows the MSI KT3 trailing by about 2%. Nothing to write home about, though, I mean the performance difference.

All three boards show excellent performance in Quake3 Arena (PR1.3, demo_four) at the "Normal" 640 x 480 x 16 bpp setting.

Content Creation Winstone 2001

One caveat here is that the KT3 was using the Maxtor drive, whereas the two other contenders were using the IBM GXP60 Deskstar. Fact is that all three boards perform within the same league.

Not much of a difference here either.

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