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MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR KT400 Motherboard Review
MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR KT400 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Looking around the cramped PCB on the MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR, we can say it's easily the most equipped motherboard we've ever tested!
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Sep 26 2002   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone

pcstats test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor:

AMD AthlonXP 2000+ (T-Bred)

Clock Speed:

12.5 x 133 MHz = 1.67 GHz
9 x 185 MHz = 1.67 GHz

Motherboards: MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR
Chipset: VIA KT400
Videocard:

MSI "Champ Ed" GeForce4 Ti4600

Memory:

256MB Corsair XMS3200 CAS2

Hard Drive: 40GB Samsung SP4004H
CDROM: NEC 52x CD-ROM
Floppy:

Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive

Heatsink: Thermalright SK-6 w/40CFM YS Tech
PowerSupply: Antec 400W PSU
Software Setup WindowsXP Build 2600
VIA 4in1 4.42V
DetonatorXP 30.82
Benchmarks

SysMark 2002
Business Winstone 2001
Content Creation 2001
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro
PCMark2002
3DMark2001SE
Quake III Arena

BAPCO Sysmark 2002 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001 rather then a whole new benchmark. The applications used during testing have been updated and most importantly for AMD users, the new SysMark2002 uses the Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which supports the AthlonXP's SSE instructions.

BapCo SysMark 2002 Benchmark Results
Internet Content (FSB/Memory) Sysmarks Ranking
1. KT4 Ultra 133/400 MHz 221
2. KT4 Ultra 185/370 MHz 238

Office Productivity (FSB/Memory)

1 KT4 Ultra 133/400 MHz 138
2. KT4 Ultra 185/370 MHz 150

Even though there is the SysMark2002 "scandal" going around we see that the KT4 Ultra still does pretty well.

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 Benchmark Results
Content Creation (FSB/Memory) Scores Ranking
1. KT4 Ultra 133/400 MHz 79.4
2. KT4 Ultra 185/370 MHz 83.7

Business Winstone (FSB/Memory)

1 KT4 Ultra 133/400 MHz 51.2
2. KT4 Ultra 185/370 MHz 56.1

The Winstone benchmarks show a good improvement once the system is boosted up to 185/370 MHz.

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Contents of Article: MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR
 Pg 1.  MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR KT400 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  The VIA KT400 chipset: ahead of the pack?
 Pg 3.  Serial ATA, 10/1000, IDE RAID
 Pg 4.  Inside the KT400 BIOS
 Pg 5.  — Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002, Winstone
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Winbench, Sandra 2002
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark 2002, 3DMark 2001SE
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: QIII Arena and Conclusions

 
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