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Soltek SL-865-GR 'Black Thunder' Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Monday, November 24, 2003

Benchmarks - Synthetic

The system as it was tested

Soltek SL-865-GR (Springdale)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Reference System

Soltek SL-86SPE-L i865PE (Springdale)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Raptor 36GB SerialATA 10k RPM
Antec 430watt 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 2003.3.9.44

Cachemem

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

Keep in mind that this, like many Soltek boards here at Ninjalane, is an early version of the SL-865-GR so you can expect many of these numbers to improve over time.