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FIC AN11 Stealth Socket A Motherboard Review
FIC AN11 Stealth Socket A Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The AN11 Stealth is powered by VIA's much loved KT266A chipset, which practically guarantees that the board is going to be a great performer.
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External Mfg. Website: FIC Mar 14 2002   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks, lovely benchmarks!

pcstats test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor: AMD AthlonXP 1900+
Clock Speed: 1.66 GHz
Motherboard: FIC AN11 Stealth
Chipset: VIA KT266A
Videocard:

MSI GeForce 3 Ti500 (MS-8850)

Sound Card: N/A
Network Card:

DLink DE-528CT

Memory:

256MB Corsair PC2400 CAS2 DDR

Hard Drive: Samsung SV6004H 5400RPM UDMA100 60GB
CDROM: Panasonic 48x CD-ROM CR-594-B
Floppy:

Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive

Heatsink: AVC Sunflower
PowerSupply: Enermax 431Watt
Software Setup Windows 2000 Pro + SP2
VIA 4in1 4.37V
DetonatorXP 22.80
DirectX 8.1
Benchmarks SysMark 2001
Business Winstone 2001
Content Creation 2001
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro
3DMark2001 SE
Serious Sam 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein

BAPCO Sysmark 2001 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SYSmark2001 uses real world applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions, in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and applications. Higher numbers denote better performance.

BapCo SysMark 2001 Benchmark Results
Test Sysmarks Ranking

Internet Content Creation

1. FIC AN11 - 133 MHz 192
2. FIC AN11 - 140 MHz 201

Office Productivity

1. FIC AN11 - 133 MHz 162
2. FIC AN11 - 140 MHz 175

The AN11 does fairly well in SysMark 2001 even though the Media Encoder part of the test doesn't use the AthlonXP's SSE. As we can see, overclocking does improve performance to 201 from 192, and to 175 from 162 with office productivity.

Winstone 2001 Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call "hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.

Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98 ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2001
Motherboards WinStones Ranking
1. Content Creation - AN11 - 133 MHz 69.7
2 Content Creation - AN11 - 140 MHz 71.3
1 Business Winstone - AN11 - 133 MHz 43.3
2. Business Winstone - AN11 - 140 MHz 49.1

As with SysMark2001, Winstone 2001 tests all say that you don't need a AthlonXP 2000+ with a KT266A and DDR RAM to run office based applications (because they run faster than a human can really use them). Office software still has a way to go before it can take advantage of current CPU's raw power.

Winbench 99 V1.2 Source: e-Testinglabs.com

WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. WinBench 99's tests can run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me systems.

WinBench 99 v1.2 Benchmark Results
FIC AN11 Score Ranking
1. Business Disk - 133 MHz 5480
1a. Business Disk - 140 MHz 5210
2. High-End Disk - 133 MHz 14200
2a. High-End Disk - 140 MHz 12900
3. Business Graphics - 133 MHz 800
3a. Business Graphics - 140 MHz 921
4. High-End Graphics - 133 MHz 1550
4a. High-End Graphics - 140 MHz 1710

The HDD performance of the FIC AN11 is low compared to other KT266A boards we have looked at. As for the AGP performance, it's the opposite, the numbers the AN11 Stealth pulls in are quite good! I wonder if there's a driver related issue here...

Sisoft Sandra 2001 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

SiSoft Sandra 2001 Benchmark Results
FIC AN11 Score

Multimedia Benchmark

1. Integer SSE - 133 MHz 9159it/s
1a. Integer SSE - 140 MHz 9789 it/s
2. Floating-Point SSE - 133 MHz 9718 it/s
2a. Floating-Point SSE - 140 MHz 10524 it/s

CPU Benchmark

3. Dhrystone ALU - 100 MHz 4618 MIPS
3a. Dhrystone ALU - 115 MHz 4897 MIPs
4. Whetstone FPU - 100 MHz 2308 FPU MFLOPS
4a. Whetstone FPU - 115 MHz 2571 FPU MFLOPS

Memory Benchmark

5. Integer ALU - 100 MHz 2041 MB/s
5a. Integer ALU - 115 MHz 2134 MB/s
6. Float FPU - 100 MHz 1902 MB/s
6a. Float FPU - 115 MHz 2098 MB/s

The FIC AN11 Stealth with the AthlonXP 1900+ (that is detected as a XP2000+ for some reason) produces results in Sandra which are faster then the reference CPU's.

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Contents of Article: FIC AN11 Stealth
 Pg 1.  FIC AN11 Stealth Socket A Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Around the Socket: Heatsink Clearances
 Pg 3.  VIA KT266A Chipset and BIOS
 Pg 4.  — Benchmarks, lovely benchmarks!
 Pg 5.  Gaming Benchmarks & Conclusions

 
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