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Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-150 Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Friday, November 21, 2003

Benchmarks - Synthetic

The system as it was tested

Chaintech ZNF3-150 nForce3
Athlon64 3200+ 1MB L2 Cache
AMD OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS3200LL ProSeries DDR400 512megs (2326)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Reference System

DFI Infinity 865PE (Springdale)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS3200 TwinX DDR400 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

The DFI Infinity is one of the favorites around the lab and even though it isn't a 64bit system it should provide a good basis for comparison.

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 2004.10.9.89

Memory bandwidth is on the low side due to the integrated single channel memory controller.

Cachemem

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

From a synthetic standpoint the 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 stomped all over the Athlon64 3200+. Surprised?? I know I am.