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few more observations on the board
The
board comes equipped with an Award BIOS which
is common in most motherboards. The standard options
are there as well as memory tweaks and some chipset
options. Under the Frequency/Voltage Control section,
there can be found the overclocking and voltage-manipulating
options of the board. The 4BDA has FSB selections
from 90 up to 200MHz in 1MHz incriments. Another
thing worth mentioning is the CPU voltage option
on the board; it gives its users a maximum CPU
voltage of 1.85v, and it comes in 0.0.25v incriments.
Very neat for overclocking indeed. It also has
a voltage adjustment option for the AGP card.
What the board lacks though is a memory voltage
option. This could greatly help in the board's
overclocking.
Test
System
Intel
Pentium 4 1.60AGHz (400MHz FSB)
Asus P4B266-C
Epox 4BDA
Azzo PC2100 DDR SDRAM
PalitDaytona GeForce4 MX440 64MB 270/400 (core/memory)
Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 20GB 7200RPM ATA100 HDD
Acer 52X Max IDE CD-ROM
Windows
2000 Professional, Service Pack 2
Intel Chipset Drivers V3.20.1008
DirectX 8.1
Detonator XP 28.32
Benchmarks
Quake
III Arena 1.17, demo001
High Quality 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
Serious Sam The Second Encounter Demo, Cooperative
Demo
Quality 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
3DMark2001 SE
Default 32-bit 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
PCMark2002
CPU Test, Memory Test, HDD Test
SiSoft Sandra 2002
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Notes
For
this test, both motherboards were tweaked to their
best settings and the memory was run asynchronous
to the bus speed of the CPU; the CPU ran at 400MHz
FSB while the memory was run at 133MHz DDR (DDR266
mode). 32-bit benchmarks replace 16-bit benchmarks.
The
operating system of choice still remains to be
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2
instead of Windows XP. Drivers have been updated
to Detonator XP 28.32. Benchmarks like Quake III
Arena, Serious Sam The Second Encounter Demo remain.
3DMark2001 has been updated to 3DMark2001 SE and
PCMark2002 has been included. Only SiSoft Sandra
2002's Memory Bandwidth Benchmark was used because
it is the only benchmark that at least reflects
some real world performance.
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