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

Real World (Game) 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

MadOnion 3DMARK 2001SE

A DirectX benchmark VERY widely used to test many different products such as Video Cards, CPU's Motherboards, and more. We will be using this benchmark to see how the motherboard affects video performance. In the benchmark below, the default settings were used (1024x768x32bit).

Identical performance (allowing for margin of error).

Quake 3 Arena

Another widely used banchmark, which is OpenGL accelerated. We used the "High Quality" setting and bumped the resolution to 1024x768 for these benchmarks.

Pretty self explanitory results (For those who dont see it, the results show practically identical performance between both motherboards).

Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

This benchmark is based on the Quake3 Engine, but with much more sophistaced pixel/shader engines. We used the High Quality settings with the resolution on 1024x768 as we did in the Quake 3 Benchmarks.

Dejavu, practically identical results.