Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 Dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro133A ATX

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.

As mentioned previously, Gigabyte boards have never been outstanding performers, and here we again see that the GA-6VXD7 is trailing in many of the benchmarks. For business applications, we can see that the GA-6VXD7 is still on par with the other dual Socket-370 boards we have looked at, but in Quake III we see some weaknesses.

Here we can see that Gigabyte is doing a pretty good job in terms of SMP utilization, where the scores are pretty much up to par with other dual Socket-370 boards, although they're still behind in some cases.

Here we finally see what's the problem with the poor performance on the Gigabyte board. The memory performance of the board is seriously hammered by the fact that the board does not have enough memory tweaking options in the BIOS and the default settings are apparently not too good, causing the scores to be 5% behind the other boards. This is probably the critical factor in the GA-6VXD7's weak performance elsewhere.