Test System

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4B GHz (Northwood) (Supplied by Spectrum Communications)

Memory: 2x 256MB DDR-333 Kingmax (512MB) (Supplied by Kingmax)

Video Card: nVIDIA Reference GF4 Ti4200 128MB (Supplied by nVIDIA)

Hard Disk: Western Digital WD1200 (Supplied by Achieva)

Drivers:Nvidia DetXP rev 30.30

Software Used: Sisoft Sandra 2002, 3Dmark2001, PCMark 2002 Pro, Sysmark 2002, Winstone 2001, Vulpine GLmark, Flask MPEG4 Encoding, WinAce, Quake 3 Arena, Aquanox, DroneZmark, Max Payne,Commandche 4, Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, Jedi Knight II.

SiSoft Sandra 2002 SP1

SiSoft Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) 2002 is a synthetic Windows benchmark that features different tests used to evaluate different PC subsystems. We used this to test CPU Raw Performance, Multimedia Instruction Set and Memory Bandwidth Performance. While they are all synthetic results, they do give us a general idea of what is happening and where a component's strengths and weaknesses are.

Due to higher memory dividers, the 9EJL1 takes the lead over the EPoX 4G4A+, which has been our board of choice for overclocking and the bar we set for all I845 chipset boards.