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Freeway Design FWD-A7KA Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Sunday, September 23, 2001

Benchmarks SiSoft Sandra

Now for the fun part, the benchmarks. I like the SiSoft utilites because they provide a ton of information about the current system and how it compaires to other similar systems. Now since we don't do a lot of overclocking here in the lab the CPU intensive benchmarks have been left off.

I opted to test this motherboard with a similar speed processor as I did on the FWD-CUPA review for comparison. Below are the system specs. as it was tested.

Freeway FWD-A7KA Motherboard
Athlon 1 GHz processor 100MHz FSB
Thermosonic ThermoEngine (Supercharged), 7000rpm Delta fan
1x 256MB Corsair CAS2 memory
IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40gig ATA100 7200rpm
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500
Creative Ovation 12x DVD
Windows 2000 with service pack 1 installed

I used the onboard sound and Ethernet throughout the testing process.

CUPID and Sandra CPU Benchmark