Overclocker Cafe - Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA Mainboard

Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA Mainboard

Performance

To keep with a consistent perspective of performance comparisons, we have selected our Albatron K8 SLI board as the comparison mainboard for this review. This is not in an effort to have a one on one shootout for the 'king of the hill', but rather to keep a standard comparison board so that results from one review may be extrapolated to another with relative ease. In the following performance graphs you will see three entries, our comparison board, the Foxconn 6150K8MA with its onboard video and the Foxconn 6150K8MA with the same aftermarket VGA card used with the comparison board.

Our suite of benchmarks includes PC Magazine's Business Winstone 2004, PC Magazine's Content Creation 2004, SiSoft Sandra 2005 Pro, Super Pi, Half Life 2, Doom 3 and Far Cry. All our graphed figures are the result of five runs per benchmark per product. Out of these five, the highest and lowest scores are thrown out with the remaining three averaged and graphed as shown. The onboard video testing was done with the frame buffer set to 128megs.

Test Bed

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (Clawhammer) Processor

Kingwin AquaStar H2O Kit

Albatron GeForce 7800 GTX

(2) 512 mb DIMM of Ultra XL PC3200 Memory

Maxtor 80gb SATA HDD

Lite-On Dual Layer 16x DVD Burner

Tt ToughPower 550w PSU

Windows XP Pro SP2

Results

PC Magazine's Business Winstone 2004 gets the ball rolling. Business Winstone 2004 runs a suite of many popular office programs, measuring their speed and generating an overall score. The programs it uses are Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft FrontPage 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Project 2002, Microsoft Word 2002, Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003 and WinZip 8.1. The results show the drag on the system of the onboard video. Not much here, but noticeable.

PC Magazine's Content Creation 2004 is another suite of office apps but it focuses more on design and creativity. The programs run to generate a final score as shown below are Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1, Adobe® Premiere® 6.50, Macromedia® Director MX 9.0, Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1, Microsoft® Windows Media™ Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980, NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b and Steinberg™ WaveLab™ 4.0f. Benchmarking again shows a statistically insignificant difference with the exception of the onboard video. This has be curious as to how cruel we can be to the onboard two pipeline GPU with our gaming benchmarks.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - What you get and the board
Pg 3 - More of the board
Pg 4 - BIOS
Pg 5 - Testing setup and PC Magazine benchmarks
Pg 6 - Super Pi and SiSoft Sandra 2005 Pro
Pg 7 - Half Life 2, Quake 4, Far Cry benchmarks
Pg 8 - Overclocking and Conclusion