Heir To The BX: 18 Pentium III Motherboards Using The 815 Chipset

Features
By published

SYSmark 2000 - Windows 98 SE

I used the SPECviewperf benchmark primarily to test the system stability. All boards score pretty much the same in Advanced Visualizer. A sad exception is the shuttle board, which is a good bit slower.

SPECviewperf 6.1.2 - Design Review

There is clearly a difference between the boards - but only around 5%. The Gigabyte board is able to pull ahead a little bit.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.