FIC PA-2012 VP3 AGP Socket-7 Board
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 19, 1998 7:41 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
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 shouldn't 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.
Test Configuration
| Processor(s): | AMD K6/233 ANR & Intel Pentium MMX 233 & Cyrix 6x86MX-PR2/200 |
| RAM: | 2 - 32MB Advanced
Megatrends SDRAM DIMMs 2 - 32MB Corsair SDRAM DIMMs |
| Hard Drive(s): | Western Digital Caviar AC21600H |
| Video Card: | ATI Xpert@Work
(4MB SGRAM) Matrox Millennium II (4MB WRAM) |
| Busmaster EIDE Drivers: | VIA v2.13 |
| Video Card Drivers: | MGA Millennium 4.03.00.3410 |
| OS: | Windows 95 Service Release 2 |
| Windows 95 Performance of the PA-2012 (PCI Video) | ||||
| CPU | Business Winstone 97 | Business Winstone 98 | Bus. Gfx. Winmark 97 | Bus. Gfx. Winmark 98 |
| AMD K6-200 | 53.2 | Not Run | 103 | Not Run |
| AMD K6-225 | 56.9 | Not Run | 116 | Not Run |
| AMD K6-233 | 56.0 | 17.5 | 111 | 107 |
| Cyrix 6x86MX-PR2/200 (150/75) | 55.2 | Not Run | 104 | Not Run |
| Cyrix 6x86MX-PR2/200 (166/66) | 56.1 | Not Run | 112 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 200 | 51.4 | Not Run | 104 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 225 | 53.5 | Not Run | 109 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 233 | 52.1 | 16.8 | 107 | 110 |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 262.5 | 55.6 | Not Run | 118 | Not Run |
The PCI Video Performance of the PA-2012 is outstanding, however when using an AGP video card the performance increase isn't as great when compared to identical configurations with LX motherboards. In any case, the PA-2012's performance is top-notch although it could be much better.
| Windows 95 Performance of the PA-2012 (AGP Video) | ||||
| CPU | Business Winstone 97 | Business Winstone 98 | Bus. Gfx. Winmark 97 | Bus. Gfx. Winmark 98 |
| AMD K6-200 | 53.5 | Not Run | 103 | Not Run |
| AMD K6-225 | 57.2 | Not Run | 116 | Not Run |
| AMD K6-233 | 56.4 | 17.7 | 114 | 109 |
| Cyrix 6x86MX-PR2/200 (150/75) | 55.4 | Not Run | 108 | Not Run |
| Cyrix 6x86MX-PR2/200 (166/66) | 56.3 | Not Run | 116 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 200 | 51.5 | Not Run | 105 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 225 | 53.7 | Not Run | 111 | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 233 | 52.3 | 16.9 | 109 | 110 |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 262.5 | 55.8 | Not Run | 119 | Not Run |
| Performance of the PA-2012 | ||||
| CPU | Business Disk Winmark 98 | High End Disk Winmark 98 | VGA Bench | SVGA Bench |
| AMD K6-233 (AGP Video) | 865 | 2200 | 128.2 fps | 32.7 fps |
| Intel Pentium MMX - 233 (AGP Video) | Not Run | Not Run | 116.9 fps | 38.8 fps |
How well has FIC harnessed the power of the VIA VP3 chipset? Very well, in one month FIC will release the PA-2012 and as long as its shortcomings don't bother you incredibly it will make the perfect Socket-7 Motherboard...at least until ABIT's IT5A makes its way into the market...
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