Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 Dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro133A ATX
by Mike Andrawes on May 28, 2001 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
The Test
In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.
Test Configuration |
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Processor(s): |
2 x Intel Pentium III 733MHz Retail |
RAM: |
1 x 128MB Mushkin PC133 SDRAM |
Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA 66 7200 RPM |
Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.29 Service Pack |
Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR |
Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA Detonator 6.50 |
Operating System(s): |
Windows 2000 Professional |
Motherboard Revision: |
Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 Revision 1.0 |
BIOS Revision: |
F4A (10/31/2000) |
Benchmarking Applications: |
Quake
III Arena v1.16n demo001.dm3 |
Windows
2000 Professional Performance
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SYSMark 2000 |
Benchmark Studio (OfficeBench 2.0) |
Business
Winstone 2001
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Content
Creation Winstone 2001
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Quake III Arena 640x480x16 |
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Gigabyte
GA-6VXD7
|
161 |
35.64
|
30.3
|
35.7
|
114.9
|
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ABIT
VP6
|
162
|
35.44
|
30.2
|
36.4
|
121.5
|
||
MSI
694D Pro
|
162
|
36.72
|
30.5
|
34.3
|
116.5
|
||
Iwill
DVD266-R
|
169
|
36.72
|
31.5
|
36.8
|
124.5
|
As mentioned previously, Gigabyte boards have never been outstanding performers, and here we again see that the GA-6VXD7 is trailing in many of the benchmarks. For business applications, we can see that the GA-6VXD7 is still on par with the other dual Socket-370 boards we have looked at, but in Quake III we see some weaknesses.
Windows
2000 Professional
|
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CliBench
Mk III SMP 0.7.10 (CPU)
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Dhrystones |
Whetstones |
Eight
Queens
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Matrix
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Number
|
Floating Point |
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Gigabyte
GA-6VXD7
|
2376 |
833
|
3286
|
70134
|
111006
|
11115
|
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ABIT
VP6
|
2381
|
833
|
3286
|
73015
|
111006
|
11115
|
||
MSI
694D Pro
|
2392
|
833
|
3290
|
68131
|
111452
|
11186
|
||
Iwill
DVD266-R
|
2375
|
824
|
3252
|
71909
|
111006
|
11115
|
Here we can see that Gigabyte is doing a pretty good job in terms of SMP utilization, where the scores are pretty much up to par with other dual Socket-370 boards, although they're still behind in some cases.
Windows
2000 Professional
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CliBench
Mk III SMP 0.7.10 (CPU)
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Memory Throughput |
Hard
Drive Read
|
Hard
Drive Read
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CPU
Usage (%)
|
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Max
|
Avg
|
Min
|
Max
|
Avg
|
Min
|
|||||
Gigabyte
GA-6VXD7
|
121536 |
19475
|
14827
|
10916
|
27379
|
24627
|
21787
|
1
|
||
ABIT
VP6
|
127932
|
19248
|
14994
|
13084
|
23486
|
22217
|
19248
|
1
|
||
MSI
694D Pro
|
127931
|
15584
|
12828
|
11302
|
21823
|
19852
|
17747
|
1
|
||
Iwill
DVD266-R
|
173622
|
20480
|
16806
|
14222
|
27379
|
24824
|
20480
|
1
|
Here we finally see what's the problem with the poor performance on the Gigabyte board. The memory performance of the board is seriously hammered by the fact that the board does not have enough memory tweaking options in the BIOS and the default settings are apparently not too good, causing the scores to be 5% behind the other boards. This is probably the critical factor in the GA-6VXD7's weak performance elsewhere.
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