Round Up - Integrated 3D Graphics Motherboard Shootout

Review by Edward Chang, call sign: Big_E

September 22, 2002

Test Systems:

Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 1.6A (Provided by Directron) for Intel motherboards

Default clock:    1600 MHz (16x100, 1.5v) memory: DDR266 (2.5v)

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (Provided by Directron) for AMD motherboards

Default clock:    1466 MHz ACTUAL (11x133, 1.75v) memory: DDR266 (2.5v)

EPoX 4G4A+ (Intel 845G) for Intel Test System (Provided by EPoX)

EPoX 4SDM2+ (SiS 650GX) for Intel Test System (Provided by EPoX)

Shuttle MV42N (VIA P4M266) for Intel Test System (Provided by Shuttle)

FIC AT31 Fusion (ATI IGP320) for AMD Test System (Provided by FIC)

MSI K7N420 Pro (Nvidia NForce) for AMD Test System (Provided by MSI)

KingMax 512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM (Provided by KingMax) @ Turbo CL2.5 Setting

128MB ATi Radeon 8500 (Provided by ATi)

Western Digital 80GB SE 7200 RPM UDMA 100 with 8MB Cache (Provided by Western Digital)

Liteon 40X CDROM (Provided by Directron)

Windows XP

Drivers

ATi Radeon 6.13.6118 Catalyst

DirectX 8.1 Final

Intel Application Accelerator (For Intel)

Benchmarks

MadOnion PCMark2002

SiSoft Sandra 2002 Standard

Content Creation Winstone 2002

MadOnion 3DMark2001 Second Edition

MadOnion 3DMark2000 v1.1

Quake 3 Arena Quaver Demo

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Unreal Tournament v4.36 UTBench Demo