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SiSoft Sandra Benchmarks
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra provides similar level of information to Norton SI, Quarterdeck WinProbe/Manifest, etc. The Win32 version is 32-bit and comes in both ANSI (legacy for Windows 98/Me systems) and native Unicode (Windows NT4/200X/.Net) formats. The Win64 version is 64-bit and comes in native Unicode format.
Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus are may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.
- Download SANDRA (special Guru3D.com edition)
Here you can find the scores of Sandra for the mainboard. We used an Athlon XP 1800+ processor and 512 MB of Crucial PC3200 Dual Channel DDR memory on an Windows XP operating system equipped with a Radeon 9700 Pro. First let's have a look at CPU performance, the Athlon 1800+ does not run at 1800 MHz. It is a performance rating. Multiplier x front side bus=CPU clock frequency in MHz. Athlon XP 1800+ = (11.5x133=1529.5 MHz).
| Sandra | CPU | MEM |
| Athlon 1800+ on 7NNXP | 5770 | 2028 |
| Pentium 4 2.4 (533) | 6451 | 2562 |
| Pentium 4 2.4 (800) | 7435 | 4566 |
| Pentium 4 2.6 (800) | 7710 | 4612 |
| Athlon XP 3000+ (333) | 8120 | 2630 |
Processor performance is 100% on par with what it should be. It looks a bit disfigured with the result from other processors in the chart. Unfortunately our Athlon XP 3200+ sample was returned to AMD already otherwise we'd be using that 400 MHz FSB feature one in our review. Memory at default is doing exactly ... default results at 2028 MB/sec which is not a very satisfactory result for today's machines. It's all about the CPU used though, the low FSB results in a 266 MHz DDR frequency. Tweaking did not help * a slightest bit and in this configuration the same goes for Dual Channel DDR which was odd. I think Gigabyte still has some BIOS fixing to do.
*update - tweaking includes raising the FSB as some people don't seem to understand.
