MSI 648 Max-F: SiS 648 Goes Mainstream
by Evan Lieb on September 4, 2002 1:38 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Content Creation & General Usage Performance
SYSMark has become a solid measurement of overall system performance since its induction into our benchmarking suite. Although the Internet Content Creation suite caters to more of a niche market, the Office Productivity tests are a perfect measurement of overall system performance in the applications all of us use on a daily basis.
The applications benchmarked include:
· Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop® 6.01, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5
· Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator® 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13.
For more information on the methodology and exactly what SYSMark does to generate these performance scores check out BAPCo's SYSMark 2002 Whitepaper
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As you can see, there isn't too much difference between any of the competing solutions in either Internet Content Creation or Office Productivity. This isn't too unusual when you consider that all the motherboards tested (save the 850E) are based off chipsets that have been tweaked to run DDR333 memory for months now, which has cut down on the lead of the PC1066-equipped ASUS P4T533-C board.
Also, if you remember back to our first DDR400 review, you'd know that the Shuttle AS45GTR, VPSD P4PB 400, and Soltek 85ERV were all unable to operate well enough to take down any benchmark scores with DDR400 memory. Unfortunately, this fact hasn't changed since then. Perhaps with future BIOS updates these boards will be able to run DDR400 well enough to complete our benchmark suite.
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