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Sisoft Sandra 2003

Sisoft Sandra's memory bandwidth component gives rise to exciting results: the SINXP1394 with Dual Channel PC3200 memory has a higher mark than the RDRAM combination - the GNB failed to actually score higher than the RDRAM combination here, though it was within 3-5%.

Btw, if you were thinking of running in Single channel mode, this might make you think again. There's a 16% increase in bandwidth going into Dual Channel mode.

While we have found that memory bandwidth is linked to performance, the relationship is far from linear. But there's no doubt that with this type of memory bandwidth increase, Dual Channel mode will outperform non-dual configurations by a fair margin.

The rest of the Sandra results gives you a fair idea of how the boards compare in CPU measurements.

Sysmark 2002

Sysmark2002 runs a simulation of both Office productivity (eg Microsoft Outlook, Office etc) and Internet Content Creation (Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc) workloads. Dual Channel performance is offers a slight but undeniable performance boost. The SINXP1394 has an overal greater performance score. The chart below needs to be read as a whole: though the GNB max is higher up on the chart, it's Office Productivity score is lower than the SINXP1394.