Review Date: 9th June 2002 Reviewed By: Michael "Hughesey" Hughes Product: DFI NB70-SC Intel 845 Motherboard Rating: 88% Manufacturer: DFI Supplier: N/A

Synthetic Benchmarks

TEST Setup:
CPU: Pentium 4 1.6A
RAM: 512MB PC2100 Cas2.5
VIDEO: Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 420 - 28.32
HDD: Western Digital ATA100 5400rpm
PSU: Generic 300w P4 Supported
OS: Windows XP Professional

SOFTWARE: Sisoft Sandra 2002, PCMARK 2002, 3DMARK 2001SE, Quake 3 Arena, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Sisoft Sandra 2002

Sisoft Sandra is a widely used banchmark which enables us to test many aspects of a system such as the memory subsytem performance, CPU performance in both arithmetic and multimedia applications, file system speed, and more. It does incorporate some comparison data, but for these benchmarks, we will be comparing to another board which was used on the same tested for accuracy's sake.

As we can see, both the DFI i845 based board and the Gigabyte SiS650 based board perform almost identically, with the exception of the CPU Arithmetic ALU benchmark, in which the SiS's performance is a good 150 points ahead.

Madonion PCMARK 2002

A new benchmark from MadOnion, that tests 3 different aspects of your PC's performance, the HDD performance, the CPU performance, and the Memory performance.

Once again, practically indentical results.