FIRST LOOK: Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE
by Wesley Fink on November 9, 2004 8:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Performance Tests (Continued)
DirectX 8 & OpenGL Gaming
Abit and Fatal1ty have some interesting optimizations going on in older Direct X8 and Open GL games. The increase in Quake 3 performance compared to the Intel 925X is astonishing. Comanche 4 sees a similar huge boost compared to 925X. Once again, however, FX55 is a huge winner compared to Fatal1ty/3.46EE.
General Performance
Measuring General Performance with PCMark 2004, we see that the huge cache in the 3.46EE doesn't make much difference. In this benchmark, the faster 3.6 tops the chart. We also see the familiar pattern with PCMark 2004 where Intel processors perform best with this benchmark. The difference is smaller with the FX55, but in most every other benchmark, the FX55 has a huge lead.
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Chuckles - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - link
One question: Why was the board layout not analyzed?shabby - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - link
Is it me, or are the comparisons totally useless.An fx55 vs 4000+ vs 3.46ee vs 3.6... how the hell can you do a mobo comparison with 4 different cpu's?
If your going to compare a mobo, compare it to 3 other mobo's with the same chipset to see which one performs better.
formulav8 - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - link
That fatal1ty guy is one ugly dude. I guess looks doesn't matter when it comes to playing games :)Jason
LtPage1 - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - link
im sure they will, eventually. cmon- give the intel fans a break. up till now, they had nothing. :)Desslok - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - link
Wat was ABIT thinking? Why not make this board for the Athlon 64?InsaneInDaBrain - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - link
OMG i have this old crappy mobo and it only hold DDR2 RAm and its sooooo funny with its old Pentium 4 CPU and 4 GB ram XD im laughing so hard XD typing this on an AMD FX-8350 machine..... Rockin' The AMD finally