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In keeping with our recent trends, we are using the identical test setup for the SiS 746FX review that we have used in our KT400, nForce2 and recent KT400A reviews. Just as with our recent KT400A chipset review, keep in mind that the board we are using here is a reference board and that performance could possibly increase once we begin to see production boards hitting the streets.

AMD Test System Setup

CPU

1 x 2.17 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Processor

Motherboards

746FX - SiS 746FX Reference Board

KT400A - VIA KT400A Reference board

nForce2 - Asus A7N8X

KT400 - Abit AT7-MAX2

Memory

1 x 512MB Corsair Micro XMS3200 DDR DRAM - 746FX, KT400 and KT400A

2 x 256MB Corsair Micro XMS3200 DDR DRAM - nForce2

Hard Drive

80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE

Video Card

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

Video Drivers

61.66

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

Tests:

Quake III: Arena

Unreal Tournament 2K3

3DMark 2001

SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench

SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench

Content Creation Winstone 2001

Content Creation Winstone 2002

Business Winstone 2001

SPECviewperf 7

ScienceMark