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Soltek SL-85DR-C Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Friday, March 29, 2002
System Spec and Benchmarks - Synthetic
System as it was tested
Soltek SL-85DR-C
1 Pentium 4 Northwood 2.0GHz processor 512KB L2 cache
AVC Sunflower Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS2700 DDR333 256megs
Hercules Prophet III GeForce3 video card
Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 network card
IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB ATA/100
Enermax 350watt power supply
24x CDRom (hey you need something to install an os)
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
The benchmarks are pretty straight forward and include a reference system when applicable. Now on to the numbers.
1 Pentium 4 Northwood 2.0GHz processor 512KB L2 cache
AVC Sunflower Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS2700 DDR333 256megs
Hercules Prophet III GeForce3 video card
Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 network card
IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB ATA/100
Enermax 350watt power supply
24x CDRom (hey you need something to install an os)
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
The benchmarks are pretty straight forward and include a reference system when applicable. Now on to the numbers.
Wcpuid
SiSoft Sandra
Here are a collection of SiSoft Sandra benchmarks. 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 where
recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2002.1.8.59
2x 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-2-2CL (XMS2700)
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.