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Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Benchmarks - Synthetic

The system as it was tested

Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR (nForce3-250Gb)
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

Reference System

Soltek K8AN-RL nForce3 (nForce3 150)
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
CoolJag JVC682A
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra/960 DDR3 Golden Sample
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

CPU-Z

SiSoft Sandra

Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2004.10.9.133

Cachemem

Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.

These synthetic benchmarks are pretty much self-explanatory and shows us that given similar hardware both the nF3-150 and nF3-250 will perform about the same, at least on a purely synthetic benchmark level.