Review - EPoX 4BEAV i845D Motherboard + Bluetooth
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Review by Edward Chang, call sign: Big_E
August 30, 2002
In the following benchmarks, an Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 1.6A was overclocked to provide scores at 500, 533 and 600 FSBs. The Northwood operated at a default 1.6 GHz (400 FSB), but was overclocked to 2.0 GHz (500 FSB), 2.13 GHz (533 FSB), and even higher 2.4 GHz (600 FSB). In the following charts, the number after the FSB is the memory frequency; ie 266, 300, and 333 MHz DDR. The 4BEAV is today's feature i845D-based motherboard and the 4BEAR and 4G4A are i845E and G-based ones respectively.
Direct3D Gaming Benchmarks:
3DMark2001
Second Edition
3DMark2001 is run with its default settings.
These scores show that the i845G is better than its i845D predecessor running at the new 533MHz FSB standard. The 4BEAV scores closer to the i845E-powered 4BEAR, but still lags a little behind due to its age.
3DMark2000
v1.1
3DMark2000 is run with its default settings.
3DMark benchmarks are CPU and video intensive. Here, the "500/333" 2.0 GHz setup is suppose to score slower than the "533/266" 2.13 GHz setup. The 4BEAV running at 2.4 GHz blows the new Intel 845 revisions away.
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament is run in high skin and world texture mode, and other default graphic settings.
Unreal Tournament likes the 4BEAV, as it is the fastest here.
OpenGL Gaming Benchmarks:
Quake 3 Arena
V-sync off
The 4BEAV is right where it should be.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
V-sync off
Same old.
DroneZMark
GeForce 2 MX 64 and GeForce 2 MX MAX graphic settings.
Something's wrong with the new Intel chipsets. The 4BEAV shines in this game.
VulpineGLMark
640x480x32bit, Open GL 1.2, Texture Compression, v-sync off, sound off.
This benchmark must also proves advantageous for the 4BEAV.
