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ASROCK K7S8X SIS746 FX REVIEW "Today we are testing the new Asrock K7S8X motherboard which we will compare to the older Asus A7S333 motherboard which uses the older SIS745 chipset. Software used is 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, Quake III Arena, Serious Sam SE and Unreal Tournament 2003."
ASROCK K7S8X MOTHERBOARD FEATURES
CPU Socket Socket 462
ASRock U-COP ASRock CPU Overheating Protection.
FSB 333/266/200 MHz
DDR400/333/266, Max. 3GB DDR266 memory
1 x AGP 8X/4X 1.5Volt
6 PCI slots
ATA 133 supported.
5.1 Channel audio.
10/100 Ethernet LAN
Connector IDE 2 x ATA 133/100/66/33
Floppy 1 connector
1 x SIR
Keyboard PS2 x1
Mouse PS2 x1
USB2.0 4 ports default on rear + 2 ports via header
Serial 1
Parallel 1
Game/MIDI 1
Audio I/O Line In/Line Out/Mic.
CPU/Chassis FAN connectors
20 pin ATX power connector
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GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR |
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 |
| VIDEO CARD |
XFX GEFORCE FX 5200 |
| NVIDIA DRIVER |
DETONATOR v44.03 |
| MOTHERBOARD |
ASROCK K7S8X SIS746 FX |
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ASUS A7S333 SIS745 |
| MEMORY |
512MB CRUCIAL PC2700 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1 |
| DIRECTX VERSION |
v9.0a |
3DMARK BENCHMARKS
 | 7656 |
 | 6679 |
| 1431 |
| 1390 |
ASROCK K7S8X (SIS746 FX) ASUS A7S333 (SIS745) COMMENT - "The Asrock K7S8X outpaces the Asus A7S333 by a solid 13% with 3dmark 2001 SE and by 3% with the mainly video card benchmark 3dmark 2003."
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2001 SE
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate
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QUAKE III ARENA
| 212 |
| 184 |
| 159 |
| 158 |
| 132 |
| 137 |
ASROCK K7S8X (SIS746 FX) ASUS A7S333 (SIS745) |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering
COMMENT - "Quake 3 delivers some interesting results, the Asrock K7S8X starts off well beating the Asus A7S333 by a very good 14%. The two motherboards then become video card limited and offer similar performance."
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SERIOUS SAM SE
| 160 |
| 134 |
| 120 |
| 113 |
| 99 |
| 99 |
ASROCK K7S8X (SIS746 FX) ASUS A7S333 (SIS745) |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
Elephant Atrium Demo
Extreme Quality Settings
Large Texture Size
Optimal Texture Quality
Detail Textures Enabled
COMMENT - "Serious Sam SE is pretty much the same result as seen with Quake 3, the Asrock K7S8X starts off strongly beating the Asus A7S333 by 17%., it's performance advantage then dropped to 6% using 1024x768 and at 1280x1024 they both become video card limited."
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UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
| 96 |
| 92 |
| 64 |
| 63 |
| 43 |
| 43 |
ASROCK K7S8X (SIS746 FX) ASUS A7S333 (SIS745) |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Antalus Benchmark
Character Shadows Enabled
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled
COMMENT - "Using Unreal Tournament 2003 the two motherboards both perform within 5% of each other and quickly become video card limited."
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CONCLUSION - "The Asrock K7S8X motherboard puts in a good performance against the older Asus A7S333 motherboard, the low resolution game benchmarks usually showed a large performance difference between the faster Asrock K7S8X and the Asus A7S333. The difference in performance was partly caused by the poor memory controller on the Asus A7S333, DDR333 support was added to the SIS745 as an afterthought and was usually slower than using DDR266. The Asrock K7S8X doesn't suffer from poor DDR333 memory performance like the Asus A7S333 motherboard does."
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