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AOpen i915GMm-HFS Review
[Abstract]
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Test Setup
Since we have reviewed AOpen's last attempt at a Pentium M motherboard (the i855GMEm-LFS), we will use that very board as a comparison for the i915GMm-HFS. The older board was based on the Intel 855GM chipset and only supported a 400MHz FSB. With this new incarnation, we should be able to see a boost to performance with a 533MHz FSB as well as the Dothan core's better power saving features. We will also test the i915GMm-HFS using both the older 'Banias' Pentium M 1.6GHz as well as the 'Dothan' Pentium M 750 to gauge performance gains. Test bed components are listed below, including the two different configurations used for the i915GMm-HFS:
i915GMm-HFS (using Dothan CPU)
Intel Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz, 2MB L2)
2 x 512MB Kingston DDR2-533
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
MSI PCX5750 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 61.34 driver (BETA)
Intel INF 7.0.0.1025
Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)
i915GMm-HFS (using Banias CPU)
Intel Pentium M processor 1.6GHz (1MB L2)
2 x 512MB Kingston DDR-333 (Only single channel mode supported for DDR RAM)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
MSI PCX5750 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 61.34 driver (BETA)
Intel INF 7.0.0.1025
Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)
i855GMEm-LFS
Intel Pentium M processor 1.6GHz (1MB L2)
2 x 512MB Kingston DDR-433 @ DDR-333
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
MSI PCX5750 128MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 61.34 driver (BETA)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 (with DirectX 9.0c)
Benchmarks
The following benchmarks will be used:
SPEC CPU2000
BAPCo SYSmark 2004
Futuremark PCMark04
BAPco WebMark 2004
Futuremark 3DMark03
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