Content Creation & General Usage Performance

For our Content Creation & General Usage performance we continue to use SYSMark 2002. The applications benchmarked include:

  • Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop 6.01, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5
  • Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13

For more information on the methodology and exactly what SYSMark does to generate these performance scores check out BAPCo's SYSMark 2002 Whitepaper.


Performance Test Configuration Media Encoding and Gaming Performance
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  • Anonymous User - Friday, July 25, 2003 - link

    What about stability? Does it perform better than Nforce2 400? same as KT400A does compared to Nforce2?
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, July 19, 2003 - link

    What about ECC memory support. A mobo that offers RAID w/o ECC is useless!.bh.
  • Anonymous User - Friday, July 18, 2003 - link

    You complain about the AGP/PCI bus being out of spec. It's a whole 2.5/pci and 5 mhz AGP out of spec. I don't know of any hardware that would have a problem at those speeds. You either ran out of headroom with the chip or the board just won't go past 215-220 or so. Hopefully you'll find out with other KT600 test boards.
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, July 12, 2003 - link

    It's just strange because right after he says he still highly recommends the board, he goes on to suggest that people buy an Nforce2 board if they can afford it. I don't know why he would highly recommend a board with "mediocre" performance.
  • Anonymous User - Saturday, July 12, 2003 - link

    I don't see why this board is still "highly recommended" after all the negative comments regarding the board.
  • Anonymous User - Thursday, July 10, 2003 - link

    Guess some few points were missing in the review: Performance of integrated LAN, IDE and Audio. Remember that nForce2 has a very low CPU utilization in all these three groups. Also the comparison of Audio DSP, 3D sound, ... were missing.
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 8, 2003 - link

    including the older kt400 series results would be nice...
  • Zuni - Sunday, July 6, 2003 - link

    Almost every large website worldwide uses flash. Nba.com, cnet.com,zdnet.com etc almost every ad these days is in flash. Most of the larger sites use flash for navigation and other fancy effects. We're just using it for graphing :)
  • Zuni - Sunday, July 6, 2003 - link

    Err smaller in size :)
  • Zuni - Sunday, July 6, 2003 - link

    The reason they are in flash is bandwidth, they are over 50% small in size. We hear your feedback though.

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