Content Creation & General Usage Performance

For our Content Creation & General Usage performance we continue to use SYSMark 2002. The applications benchmarked include:

  • Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop 6.01, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5
  • Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13

For more information on the methodology and exactly what SYSMark does to generate these performance scores check out BAPCo's SYSMark 2002 Whitepaper.

The Test Media Encoding & Quake III Arena Performance
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  • Anonymous User - Thursday, July 24, 2003 - link

    Could anyone clarify if the information for the sound system on the Abit IS7 is correct? The article lists it as being an Analog Devices AD1985. I thought it was Realtek?

    Thanks,
    Harry
  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - link

    What a great article!
    We're waiting for the Part 2... :B
  • Evan Lieb - Monday, July 21, 2003 - link

    I bet that the Part 1 thread would be posted by a certain date, and it was indeed posted on that date. I never anything about Part 2, because I've been thinking of adding more benchmarks and data in general to round out any and all Pentium 4 motherboard testing until Prescott arrives.

    Anonymous User #4, you should always research your recollections if you can't exactly "recall" certain events correctly. ;)
  • Evan Lieb - Monday, July 21, 2003 - link

  • Anonymous User - Friday, July 18, 2003 - link

    As I recall, Evan made a bet on the part 2 being posted a while back.... the thread was mysteriously removed though.
  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - link

    So, what month/year will part 2 be posted?
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 6, 2003 - link

    I read that the Epox 4pca3+ could do a 1,85 vcore with a bois update.. If anyone know where to find this bios update, please e-mail me zimen1@msn.com
    I really can't find it.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 6, 2003 - link

    I also fried my MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R when I updated the BIOS from 1.2 to 1.4. I got a replacement board, but have been hesitant to try again based on my prior experience. Based on your experience with 1.5, (and now 1.6 is available), I'm willing to take another chance.

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