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DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Rev B Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Friday, January 16, 2004

Benchmarks - Synthetic

The system as it was tested

DFI LanParty NFII Ultra
AMD Athlon XP2400+ Tbred processor
Demonic XTC Waterblock, Hydor L30, Black Ice Pro
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory (6222)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Reference System

Soltek SL-75FRN-L Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP2200+ Tbred processor
CoolerMaster xDream Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory (6222)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Wcpuid

SiSoft Sandra

Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2004.10.9.89

Talk about almost identical

Cachemem

Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.

As expected both the LanParty and the reference system are sporting similar numbers across the board despite the Soltek being tested with a slower processor and older chipset.