Value Dual Socket-370 Motherboard Roundup - August 2001

Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena

From our experience Quake III Arena scores are generally much higher on boards using Intel chipsets, but as you can see here the Acorp 6A815EPD performs very poorly in the Quake III Arena test. The score is even lower than most single processor i815 motherboards we have tested. This probably means that there is still room for improvement in design for better performance. It's unclear if Acorp had to make some design compromises to accommodate dual processors or if their board simply isn't tweaked for performance.

The Iwill DVD266-R runs out to first place, thanks in large part to the memory bandwidth advantage it holds by the use of DDR SDRAM. Nonetheless, we also notice quite a big performance gap, up to 10%, between boards using the VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset.