All testing will be done at 32 bit color, vsync is off, AA is off, and all of the memory options are at the most aggressive settings. All the eye candy will be turned on at its highest for all of the game testing. I have benchmarked with some popular software at 1024×768, all of the settings were the same during testing with both motherboards. Here is a WCPUID screen shot of the default speed of the CPU.
Test Bed
- AOpen AK77-333
- AOpen AK77 Pro(A)-133
- AMD Thunderbird 1.2Ghz
- Corsair 512MB XMS2700
- 3DPower Geforce 3
- Antec 300w PSU
I benchmarked with the AOpen AK77 Pro(A)-133 which is labeled in all of the graphs as KT266a and then I benchmarked with the AOpen AK77-333 which is labeled as KT333.With the SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic benchmarking the AK77-333 is actually scores a very tiny bit lower than the AK77 Pro(A)-133. The AK77-333 should perform better than the AK77 Pro(A)-133 but does not.
The SiSoft Sandra Multi-Media benchmarking yielded the same lower scores for the AK77-333 it is only a little less, but again it should be higher seeing how it is their newest board.
The SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth benchmarking however did have better results with the AK77-333 as it should, there is not much of a gain in performance but there is some. If I had more options in the BIOS for tweaking the memory I could have gotten a lot better score.
3DMark2000 scores also improved from KT266a to the KT333. The AK77-333 motherboard was able to pull 501 point ahead of the AK77 Pro(A)-133.
3DMark2001SE got about the same boost in the final score. The AK77-333 got 455 more points than the AK77 Pro(A)-133, not a whole lot of performance but about what I expected.
Serious Sam usually doesn’t change very much in FPS unless there is a drastic change in the system. As you can see Serious Sam only got 0.5 FPS more on the AK77-333.
And finally Quake III running the Demo001 timedemo jumped up 9.5 FPS on the AK77-333 which is a nice improvement.
