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.

Click Here to learn about AnandTech's Motherboard Testing Methodology.

Test Configuration

Processor(s):
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
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 v4.24 Service Pack
Video Card(s):
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
Video Drivers:
NVIDIA Detonator 5.22
Operation System(s):
Windows 98 SE
Motherboard Revision:
ASUS A7V133 Revision 1.04

 

Windows 98 Performance

Athlon 1GHz OEM

SYSMark 2000

Content Creation Winstone 2000

Quake 3 Arena 640x480x16

ASUS A7V133 (KT133A / 133MHz)

197

37.6

153.4

MSI K7T Turbo (KT133A / 133MHz)

194

37.5

145.7

EPoX EP-8KTA3 (KT133A / 133MHz)

196

36.7

146.3

ABIT KT7A-RAID (KT133A / 133MHz)

197

37.4

149.6

MSI K7T Pro2 (KT133 / 100MHz)

189

35.8

135.1

 

Things get quite interesting with the results on the A7V133.  The ABIT KT7A-RAID doesn’t hold the performance crown anymore, as it is edged out ever so slightly by the A7V133.  We can see that the SYSMark 2000 and Winstone 2000 scores are still very close to each other, but in the Quake 3 Arena tests, the A7V133 jumped out with a  5% lead over the MSI K7T Turbo, mostly due to its more flexible memory tweaking options.

In general, we are still looking at a very mature series of motherboards.  There should be some more room in performance with future BIOS updates, but from the fact that most scores are packed closely together, we can expect such performance boosts to be minimal.

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