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Posted: April 9th, 2002 Written by: Tuan Huynh Hardware Setup Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (400 MHz FSB), 2x 256MB Kingston Value Ram PC2100, Soyo P4I Fire Dragon, Abit BD7-RAID, Intel Desktop Board D845BG, Hercules 3D Prophet Ti500, Onboard Realtek 10/100, D Link DFE530TX+, Onboard Intel 10/100 Pro VE, Onboard C-Media CMI8738, Onboard Sound (Avance Logic), Onboard Sound Max Integrated Digital Audio, Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 20GB (7200RPM ATA100), Antec 400 Watt PSU, Lite-On 52x CD-Rom, Common Software Windows XP Pro Edition w/Latest patches and updates, Intel Application Accelerator 2.0, NVIDIA Detonator XP 23.11, SiSoft Sandra Calculated Memory Bandwidth, SiSoft Sandra Theoretical Memory Bandwidth, Sysmark 2002 Internet Content Creation, Sysmark 2002 Office Productivity, Quake 3 Arena HQ (640x480), 3D Mark 2001 SE (default), PC Mark 2002 (CPU Tests), The Test  When it comes to using Sandra to calculate the memory bandwidth, the Fire Dragon is able to keep up with Abit’s BD7-RAID, falling behind by less then 1%. The Fire Dragon also is able to speed ahead the Intel D845BG by roughly 2%.  In Sandra’s Theoretical memory bandwidth test, we see the same reoccurrence of results. Again the Fire Dragon is able to keep up within 1% of the BD7-RAID and still outperforms the D845BG by less then 1%. |
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