ASROCK K8 UPGRADE 760 GX REVIEW

MIRAGE2 GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE

COMANCHE4	DOOM3	FARCRY	HALF LIFE 2	QUAKE III ARENA	WARHAMMER 40,000	XPAND RALLY	X2 THE THREAT
13	8	17	26	51	12	10	16

ASROCK K8 UPGRADE 760 GX

COMMENT - "When using the onboard video on the ASROCK K8 UPGRADE760 GX we experienced excellent display quality and performance which makes it very good for things like the Internet and Office Applications etc. However when we tried to play games even at the lowest image quality and resolution we experienced very poor performance."

COMMENT - "To help gauge cpu performance between the AMD Athlon XP 3200 and the AMD Sempron 3100 we have used the SiSoftware Sandra 2005 CPU test. Using the ALU Dhrystone test the Athlon XP 3200 beat the Sempron 3100 by 9% and with the FPU Whetstone test the Sempron 3100 beat the Athlon XP 3200 by 6%."

COMMENT - "Using the SiSoftware Sandra 2005 Multi-Media test the Athlon XP 3200 wins both tests beating the Sempron 3100 by 18%."

COMMENT - "Using the SiSoftware Sandra 2005 Memory Bandwidth test the performance between the ASROCK K8 UPGRADE 760 GX and the ASROCK K7S8XE+ is very close. However the ASROCK K8 UPGRADE 760 GX did score one victory which was for the Floating Point Memory Bandwidth test which it won by 6%."

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 2005

1024x768 Resolution
No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
No Fixed Framerate

COMMENT - "I was suprised by how close the game performance result was, the biggest difference in performance was with Quake 3 which showed an increase of 9fps. The powerful AMD Athlon XP 3200 processor really helps the ASROCK K7S8XE+ with game performance."

CONCLUSION - "The ASROCK K8 UPGRADE 760 GX delivered good performance, the onboard video is a good idea for people who just want a computer for office applications etc. However when used with games the onboard video was inadequate and a real graphics card is required. We did experience some problems with memory incompatibility although we are sure these problems with be fixed."