SiSoft
Sandra MAX3 Memory Bandwidth
Although
synthetic in nature SiSoft's Sandra offers a valuable insight towards overall
performance levels. We're running the new MAX3 flavour of this ever popular
software and ran both the memory bandwidth and the cache and memory benchmarks
with system performance set to "Normal" and also set to "Ultra".
System Performance set to "Normal"
System Performance set to "Ultra"
SiSoft
Sandra MAX3 Cache and Memory
System Performance set to "Normal"
System Performance set to "Ultra"
I wasn't
planning on running a dozen pages of benchmarks simply because I hadn't envisaged
the MEGA as being particularly suitable for high end gaming but perhaps I underestimated
it. Performance levels for what is essentially a single channels P4 platform seem
right in step with those we've come to expect from the popular i845 chipset when
the system performance is cranked up so with a fast processor and maybe a Radeon
9700/9800 Pro or FX5600 Ultra or similar you'd find yourself with a perfectly
acceptable and near high-end gaming system. Incredible! If you're using the MEGA
in a living room environment connected to your TV you could even get some quality
gaming done at fluid framerates with a much less powerful graphics card as TV-out
is limited to a mere 800x600, allowing for some high framerate TV gaming on a
something fairly cheap like a Radeon 7/8xxx or GeForce4 MX or Ti series card.
