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ASUS A8R-MVP (ATI CrossFire Xpress 1600)

By Zachary Chan - 15 Apr 2006

Test Setup

Test Setup

Since we now have a ready pool of RD480 motherboards to base our comparisons on, we will be able to see just where the ASUS A8R-MVP stands in terms of value in the mainstream performance segment. Just as we had benchmarked the ECS KA1 MVP and MSI RD480 Neo2, we will be putting the A8R-MVP through the same tests and system setup. The test bed configurations are listed below. Most of the hardware used is identical except for a minor incompatibility with the reference board required swapping to another pair of memory.

  • ASUS A8R-MVP
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
  • 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 @ 6-3-3 CAS 2.5
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
  • Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D-3 GeForce 6600GT 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 driver
  • ULi Integrated drivers 2.1
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)

 

  • ECS KA1 MVP
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
  • 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 @ 6-3-3 CAS 2.5
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
  • Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D-3 GeForce 6600GT 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 driver
  • ATI Catalyst Southbridge drivers 6.2
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)

 

  • MSI RD480 Neo2
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
  • 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 @ 6-3-3 CAS 2.5
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
  • Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D-3 GeForce 6600GT 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 driver
  • ULi SATA/RAID driver 6.2.07
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)

 

  • ATI Reference RD480 motherboard
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz)
  • 2 x 512MB Kingston DDR400 @ 6-3-3 CAS 2.5
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
  • Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D-3 GeForce 6600GT 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98 driver
  • ATI Catalyst Southbridge drivers 6.2
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)


Benchmarks

The following benchmarks will be used in this review:-

  • BAPco SYSmark 2004
  • Futuremark PCMark04
  • SPECviewperf 8.01
  • Futuremark 3DMark03
  • Futuremark 3DMark05
  • AquaMark3
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