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Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR (nForce3-250Gb)
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Reference System
Soltek K8AN-RL nForce3 (nForce3 150)
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
CPU-Z
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 2004.10.9.133
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
These synthetic benchmarks are pretty much self-explanatory and shows us that given similar hardware both the nF3-150 and nF3-250 will perform about the same, at least on a purely synthetic benchmark level.