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Abit's AT7 MAX (VIA KT333) Legacy Free.
Author : Martyn Date :24th July 2002

3DVelocity wish to thank Abit and especially Lester for providing this motherboard for our review.

...ProductAbit AT7 MAX & Media XP
...ManufacturerAbit
...SupplierAbit
...Price£145 Approx'

 

 

 

Part Four: The Test Setup

AMD's Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)
Abit's AT7 MAX
1 x Samsung 256MB PC2700 DDR
eVGA's Geforce 4 Ti 4600 Ltd Ed. (Core @ 300MHz, Memory @ 700MHz)
IBM's 75GXP ATA 100
550w Intel/AMD Approved PSU.
Windows XP Pro.

Benchmarks

Benchmark
Optimisation / Explination
SiSoftware Sandra 2002 V.2002.1.8.59
CPU, Multi-Media & Memory Performance
SiSMark 2001 XP Patch 03
System Performance: Office Environment & Web Creation
Quake 3
Arena Time Demo 1 V.1.1
Open GL Gaming
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast V.1.03
Open GL Gaming
3DMark 2000 v.1.1
Direct 3D DX7

3DMark 2001 'SE'

Direct 3D DX8.1
Max Payne v.1.5 'Shooting Alex' Demo
'Real World' Gaming DX8

Part Six: Sandra

The ever-popular Sandra should indicate just how good Abit's latest board really is...

Sandra Benchmark
Abit KX7333-R
CPU Benchmark

4783MIPS
[Dhrystone ALU]
2399MFLOPS [Whetstone FPU]

CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
9516 it/s
[Integer aEMMX aSSE]
11002it/s
[Floating Point aSSE]

Strong numbers are on display here, the board's performance levels are almost identical to the excellent KR7A and KX7333R

Sandra Benchmark
Abit KX7333-R
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

2039MB/s
[Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]

1958 MB/s
[Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]

Here we can clearly again observe the relatively small gain offered by running your memory at 166MHz. Remember this was evident in our KX7333R review also. The FSB clearly limits data transfer and thus we see only minimal gains from the KT333 chipset. These are still great scores though, regardless of the limits of the chipset. Abit have certainly optimized the memory architecture of this board . Also remember you have the chance to use four DIMMS if you wish, an option that may be more usual for those dealing with huge files or those who indulge in high resolution graphical tasks.

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