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Abit's KX7333-R (VIA KT333 CE)
Author : Martyn Date : 19th June 2002

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

...Product Abit's KX7333 R
...Manufacturer ABIT
...Supplier ABIT
...Price £100 Approx'

 

 

 

Part Five: The Test Setup

AMD's Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)
Abit's KX7333-R [VIA KT333 CE]
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

4786 MIPS
[Dhrystone ALU]

2397
MFLOPS [Whetstone FPU]

CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
9506 it/s
[Integer aEMMX aSSE]
11004 it/s
[Floating Point aSSE]

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

Sandra Benchmark
Abit KX7333-R
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

2030 MB/s
[Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]

1953 MB/s
[Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]

Here we can clearly observe the relatively small gain offered by running your memory at 166MHz. 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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