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Soltek SL-75DRV5 KT333 Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Friday, March 29, 2002

Benchmarks - Real World

Gaming Performance

Serious Sam is a great looking game with really large maps and even with conservative settings will tax even the fastest of computers. I used default settings for this benchmark.

My personal favorite, Quake 3

I used a multi-player demo called checkpoint for this benchmark. If you wish to try it yourself the demo file can be downloaded from the following website http://www.3dcenter.de/downloads/rtcw-checkpoint.php

Content Creation Winstone 2002

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 6, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Macromedia Director 8.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7, Netscape Navigator 6.01, and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c

Business Winstone 2001

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 Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Project 98, Lotus Notes R5, NicoMak WinZip, Norton AntiVirus, and Netscape Communicator.

SPECviewperf

Here is a realworld benchmark to give us an idea as to how well the system will perform in a "workstation" environment. For more information about this benchmark and what it can and cannot do please refer to this page http://www.specbench.org/gpc/opc.static/viewperf.htm

Reference values in yellow are from the Soltek SL-75DRV4 Review running an Athlon XP 1700+ at default speed. Except for the case of gaming performance once again the SL-75DRV5 is only slightly faster than the SL-75DRV4.