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Other then the on board GeForce4 MX
videocard care of the nForce IGP northbridge this board is virtually identical to Abit's extremely successful NF7/NF7-S motherboards.
83% Rating: 
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Benchmarks: SysMark2002, Winstone 2002
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Computer Hardware:
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| Processor: |
AthlonXP 3000+ |
| Clock
Speed: |
13 x 166 MHz = 2.17 GHz |
| Motherboards: |
Epox 8RDA+
Epox 8RGA+
Abit NF7-M |
| Chipsets: |
nVIDIA nForce2 SPP
nVIDIA nForce2
IGP |
| Videocard: |
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro (not used with the 8RGA+,
NF7-M)
Integrated GeForce4 MX |
| Memory: |
2x 256MB Corsair XMS3500 CAS2 (in DC
mode) |
| Hard
Drive: |
20GB Maxtor
DiamondMAX+ |
| CDROM: |
NEC 52x CD-ROM |
| Floppy: |
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive |
| Heatsink: |
Thermalright SK6 w/37 CFM YS
Tech |
| PowerSupply: |
Vantec 470W Stealth PSU |
| Software
Setup |
WindowsXP Build 2600
VIA Hyperion
4.45
nVIDIA nForce 2.03
Catalyst 3.1 |
| Benchmarks |
SysMark 2002
Business Winstone 2002
Content Creation
2002
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra
2002
PCMark2002
3DMark2001SE
Quake III Arena
UT2003 |
We all know how fast the nForce2/Radeon 9700
Pro is, and for this review it was not used. Our tests with the Abit
NF7-M are based entirely on the use of the integrated GeForce4 MX
GPU.
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.
In SysMark 2002 the NF7-M is just slightly faster then the 8RGA+
at stock speeds.
 Winstone 2002 |
Source: Zdnet |
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Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a
system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall
performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation
applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows
XP.
Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level,
application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when
running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98,
Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone
doesn't mimic what these packages do; it 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.
Here we see that the NF7-M performs on par
with the 8RGA+ at stock speeds and is just slightly slower then the
8RDA+ with the Radeon 9700 Pro. Overclocking doesn't seem to do much in terms of
office performance.
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