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DFI Lanparty KT400A Update |
Reason
We received updated performance BIOS from DFI after our DFI Lanparty KT400A review. I tested this new BIOS and because performance gain seemed to be extraordinary we decided to publish updated graphs. So here they are.
Tests
Hardware:| Processor | AMD Athlon XP 2600+(12,5x166MHz) & 2700+ (13x166MHz) |
| RAM | Kingston HyperX PC3000 2x256MB |
| Hard Drive | IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB |
| Graphics Card | Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB |
| Graphics Driver | Catalyst 3.4 |
| Chipset Driver nForce2 | nVIDIA driver 2.41 |
| Chipset Driver KT400A | Hyperion 4.45 and 4.47 |
| Chipset Driver i865PE | 5.0.1006 |
| DirectX Version | 9.0a |
| OS | Windows XP |
| WinRAR 3.10, | Best compression |
| CDex 1.50 | High Quality, 256kbps |
| PCMark2002 | Default test |
| 3DMark2001SE | Default test |
| SiSoft Sandra 2003 | Default tests |
| Superpi 8M | 8M |
| Quake III Arena | Version 1,17, demo001, Highquality |
| Unreal Tournament 2003 | Version 2225, HardOCP UT2k3 Benchmark utility v2.1, CPU test |
On graphs there are Asus A7N8X(nForce2) and P4P800(P4 i865PE) as references. Unfortunately A7N8X and LANParty KT400A results are driven on different CPUs because of BIOS failure on A7N8X before I managed to finish all the tests. I would have driven KT400A results on 12.5X multiplier but it didn't work either so we have to get along what we have.
Results marked as "Updated BIOS" are driven with new BIOS. Performance gain is easy to determine as I included also old results.
WinRAR 3.10
CDex 1.50
PCMark2002
SiSoft Sandra 2003
Superpi 8M
Unreal Tournament 2003
3DMark2001SE
Quake III Arena
I have no idea how new BIOS is able to increase performance so much. Async mode is now little slower than sync-mode as it is with NF2 too. Generally KT400A is now easily comparable to NF2 regarding to performance. Very well done DFI!
Look also our original DFI Lanparty KT400A review
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