3DMark2001 SE	Source: MadOnion

3DMark2001 SE is the latest installment in the 3DMark series by MadOnion. By combining DirectX8 support with completely new graphics, it continues to provide good overall system benchmarks. 3DMark2001 SE has been created in cooperation with the major 3D accelerator and processor manufacturers to provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite demonstrates 3D gaming performance by using real-world gaming technology to test a system's true performance abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders and Point Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests using Ipion real-time physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better performance.

3DMark2001 SE Benchmark Results
	Processor	3DMarks	Ranking
1.	BG7 - 133/333	15138
2.	NT72-SA - 133/1066	15440
3.	GNB MAX Single DDR - 133/266	14644
4.	GNB MAX Dual DDR - 133/266	15520

While 3DMark doesn't have all that much relevance for a workstation, it is fun to see how the board performs in this test. With one stick of memory performance is lower than an equivalent RDRAM platform, and with dual channel DDR, performance is superior to RDRAM by about 100 3dmarks.

Quake III Arena	Source: ID Software

Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS) that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.

Quake III Arena Fastest demo001 (SYSTEM)
	Processor	FPS	Ranking
1.	BG7 - 133/333	401.8
2.	NT72-SA - 133/1066	410.3
3.	GNB MAX Single DDR - 133/266	379.4
4.	GNB MAX Dual DDR - 133/266	416.9

Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU STRESS)
	Processor	FPS	Ranking
1.	BG7 - 133/333	110.4
2.	NT72-SA - 133/1066	111.5
3.	GNB MAX Single DDR - 133/266	105.6
4.	GNB MAX Dual DDR - 133/266	112.3

Like all the other benchmarks before it, the Granite Bay with one DIMM is bringing it up the rear, and with both sticks of DDR, shows us its' best performance over RDRAM.