ASROCK K7S8X 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

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 2500
VIDEO CARD	XFX GEFORCE 5200
NVIDIA DRIVER	DETONATOR v44.03
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8X
	ASUS A7S333
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC2700 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0a

3DMARK BENCHMARKS

3DMARK 2001 SE

	7656
	6679

3DMARK 2003

	1431
	1390

ASROCK K7S8X 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."

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

3DMARK 2001 SE

CAR CHASE (HIGH DETAIL)

	48
	41

DRAGOTHIC (HIGH DETAIL)

	66
	57

LOBBY (HIGH DETAIL)

	59
	50

NATURE

	35
	33

ASROCK K7S8X ASUS A7S333 (SIS745)

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth

COMMENT - "Using 3dmark 2001 SE game benchmarks the ASROCK K7S8X outperform the Asus A7S333 by beween 6% to 16%."

3DMARK 2003 GAMES

WINGS OF FURY

	79
	73

BATTLE OF PROXYCON

	7
	8

TROLL'S LAIR

	6
	6

MOTHER NATURE

	6
	8

ASROCK K7S8X ASUS A7S333 (SIS745)

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

COMMENT - "As previously shown the 3dmark 2003 is a video card benchmark and changing the processor or motherboard doesn't increase the final score by very much. The ASROCK K7S8X wins the Wings of Fury test by 8% however loses most of the remaining game benchmarks to the Asus A7S333."

QUAKE III ARENA

800x600

	212
	184

1024x768

	159
	158

1280x1024

	132
	137

ASROCK K7S8X 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."

SERIOUS SAM SE

800x600

	160
	134

1024x768

	120
	113

1280x1024

	99
	99

ASROCK K7S8X 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."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

800x600

	96
	92

1024x768

	64
	63

1280x1024

	43
	43

ASROCK K7S8X 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."

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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ASROCK K7S8X 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

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

3DMARK BENCHMARKS

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."

3DMARK 2001 SE

BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth COMMENT - "Using 3dmark 2001 SE game benchmarks the ASROCK K7S8X outperform the Asus A7S333 by beween 6% to 16%."

3DMARK 2003 GAMES

QUAKE III ARENA

SERIOUS SAM SE

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

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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BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth

COMMENT - "Using 3dmark 2001 SE game benchmarks the ASROCK K7S8X outperform the Asus A7S333 by beween 6% to 16%."