ABIT KT7A-RAID Socket-A KT133A ATX
by Mike Andrawes on January 21, 2001 11:31 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
The Test
In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.
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Test Configuration |
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| Processor(s): |
AMD
Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
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| RAM: |
1 x 128MB Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
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| Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 153BA Ultra
ATA 66 7200 RPM
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| Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.24 Service Pack
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| Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
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| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 5.22
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| Operation System(s): |
Windows
98 SE
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| Motherboard Revision: |
ABIT
KT7A-RAID Revision 1.0
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Windows 98 Performance |
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Athlon 1GHz OEM
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Sysmark 2000
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Content Creation
Winstone 2000 |
Quake III Arena - 640 x 480 x 16
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| ABIT KT7A-RAID (KT133A/133MHz) |
197
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37.4
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149.6
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| Microstar K7T Turbo (KT133A/133MHz) |
194
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37.5
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145.7
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| Microstar K7T Pro2 (KT133/100MHz) |
189
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35.8
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135.1
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We compared the KT7A-RAID to another KT133A motherboard, the Microstar K7T Turbo (the review is in the works) and as you can see, this initial revision of the KT7A-RAID is just slightly faster than the K7T Turbo. With future BIOS revisions this could change but, as we're used to seeing, ABIT's tweaker-friendly BIOS usually gives it a small performance advantage in our tests.
We also compared the board to the winner of our latest KT133 Motherboard Roundup, the Microstar (MSI) K7T Pro2. This helps to illustrate the performance benefit simply switching to the 133MHz FSB gives you. We compared a 1GHz Athlon running at 1000/133 on the ABIT and MSI boards to a 1GHz Athlon running at 1000/100 on the K7T Pro2. As you can see, the numbers fall in line with what we saw in our VIA KT133A Review.
SYSMark 2000, not the most memory bandwidth intensive benchmark, shows a 5% increase in performance while Quake III Arena demonstrates a 10% performance difference. Considering that you can use your current CPU and PC133 SDRAM on all KT133A boards, these performance gains aren't bad at all.
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