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DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Rev B Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Friday, January 16, 2004
Benchmarks - Real World
Gaming Performance
Serious Sam is a great FPS game that brings back many things that made FPS fun, TONS of things to shoot!!. Even with
conservative settings this game will tax even the fastest of computers.
I used the default fresh installed settings for this benchmark. If you'd like to do your own Serious Sam demo benchmark bring down the console and type "dem_bProfile=1" (w/out quotes), exit the console then choose a demo from the main menu. When the demo is complete pull down the console again to see your score.
I used the default fresh installed settings for this benchmark. If you'd like to do your own Serious Sam demo benchmark bring down the console and type "dem_bProfile=1" (w/out quotes), exit the console then choose a demo from the main menu. When the demo is complete pull down the console again to see your score.
Serious Sam: Second Encounter.
My personal favorite, Quake 3. We used the high-quality settings with the resolution set at 1024x768 32-bit color.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. For this benchmark we used a multi-player demo called checkpoint.
If you wish to try the demo out for yourself it can be downloaded from the following website or
ask me and I'll send you a copy.
Unreal Tournament 2003. UT2003 comes with a built in benchmarking tool that will run a series of botmatch timedemos and record the
scores for you. The benchmark was run in the default configuration.
Content Creation Winstone 2003
The best of the best when it comes to real world benchmarks, this free program is available from
eTesting Labs and uses real programs to test the overall performance of your computer. These programs include: Adobe Photoshop 7.0,
Adobe Premiere 6.0, Macromedia Director 8.5.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055, Netscape 6.2.3,
NewTek's LightWave 7.5, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0.
Business Winstone 2002
Business Winstone is quite similar to the Content Creation benchmark but uses programs that you would
most likely use in the office. These programs include five Microsoft Office 2002 applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Word),
Microsoft Project 2000, Lotus Notes, WinZip 8.0, Norton AntiVirus, and Netscape Communicator.
Once again, both the LanParty and reference system are showing very similar scores across the board. Winstone tests will show the LanParty board as being faster due in part to the Hitachi SerialATA HDD. Regardless the similarities between both systems is amazing though, again, not unheard of.
