Asus A7M266-D (Dual Athlon) Motherboard review

[NucleusWDS]

Check it out here ....

LINK

 

[Priit]

Link isn't ecactly into right place. WTF they are doing with SiSoft Sandra, 3DMark, Quake 3 and other that kind of software in dual-processor review? Those apps doesn't benefit from dual-processor, running them uniprocessor machine would probably be faster. Wonder if those guys would try run quake3 on quad-alpha and base their conclusions on that, too...

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< Link isn't ecactly into right place. WTF they are doing with SiSoft Sandra, 3DMark, Quake 3 and other that kind of software in dual-processor review? Those apps doesn't benefit from dual-processor, running them uniprocessor machine would probably be faster. Wonder if those guys would try run quake3 on quad-alpha and base their conclusions on that, too... >>

Actually, Quake 3 has some primitive SMP support, though often times it leads to crashing. On the other hand, SiSoft Sandra is a legitimate synthetic benchmark for dual processors.

 

[Priit]

<< Actually, Quake 3 has some primitive SMP support, though often times it leads to crashing. On the other hand, SiSoft Sandra is a legitimate synthetic benchmark for dual processors. >>



Gain/loss from SMP in Quake3 is within margin of error, if it even has any kind of SMP support it doesn't seem to help much. Sisoft Sandra numbers are IMO pretty much meaningless, they has almost nothing to do with performance in real-world apps (only memory benchmark may have some kind of value, thougt). I doubt that anyone in their right mind would buy SMP system for gaming or running sythetic benchmarks anyway...