Biostar iDEQ 200T: The Test

We ran all of the benchmarks that we could with the onboard Intel Extreme Graphics video. We also ran our full suite of benchmarks with our standard ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card, so they could be compared to our 875/865 benchmarks from other boards and systems. There was still a spare Molex connector for the video card, and the small system ran cool and stable even with our standard 3.0GHz Pentium 4 as our CPU.


 Performance Test Configuration
Processor(s): Intel 3.0 800FSB Pentium 4
RAM: 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II DS
2 x 256MB Corsair 3200LL SS
Hard Drive(s): Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer)
Western Digital 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer)
Bus Master Drivers: Intel INF Update v5.00.1012
Intel IAA for 875P RAID not installed for consistency of Test Results
Video Card(s): On-board Intel Extreme Graphics
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X)
Video Drivers: Intel 82865G Graphics Controller 6.13.10.3510
ATI Catalyst 3.6
Operating System(s): Windows XP Professional SP1
Motherboards: Biostar iDEQ 200T @200.8 MHz
Shuttle XPC SB65G2 (865PE)@200.5 MHz
Asus P4C800-E (875P)@200.5 MHz
ABIT IS7-G (865PE)
ABIT IC7-G (875P)
Gigabyte 8KNXP (875P)

Recent performance tests on Intel 875/865 boards used 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II Double-bank memory. Previous tests of Intel motherboards used 2 x 256MB Corsair 3200LL Ver. 1.1.

All performance tests with the ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card were run with the AGP Aperture set to 128MB with Fast Write enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32.

Additions to Performance Tests

We have standardized on ZD Labs Internet Content Creation Winstone 2003 and ZD Labs Business Winstone 2002 for system benchmarking. We are no longer reporting SysMark2002 results as part of our standard benchmark suite.

Game Benchmarks

We have added Gun Metal DirectX Benchmark 2 from Yeti Labs as a standard game benchmark. We are also evaluating the new X2 Benchmark, which includes Transform and Lighting effects as part of the standard benchmarks. Results are reported here for reference. Jedi Knight II has been dropped form our standard Benchmark Suite. We were forced to use different patches for operation on Athlon and Intel Pentium 4, which made cross-platform comparison difficult, if not impossible. In addition, Opteron/Athlon64 requires a 3rd patching variation for benchmarking. JK2 uses a Quake engine, and we are continuing Quake3 as a standard benchmark for the time being.

Biostar iDEQ 200T: BIOS and Overclocking Gaming and Media Encoding Performance
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  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - link

    50-60dBA is conversation level volume. Of course, its white noise and relatively low frequency. I have serious doubts that your tower is 30dBA (except for the advertisement that says it is). about 35 dba is on the threshold of a whisper. Unless you live in a soundlab your ambient noise level should be around 30dba.
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - link

    Yeah, #1 (uh.. and #2, doublepostage?) is right. 60dB is fscking loud, as anyone who's owned a Black Label can attest. My tower used to put out ~40 decibels of noise, and it was a touch loud (didn't bother me much though). "So?" you say? 50 decibels is 10 times 40 decibels. The wonders of non-linear scales.
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - link

    Am I missing something here? How can 50-60 dBA be considered quiet? That's freight train level noise for a PC, especially with the quieter towers coming in at about 30 dBA.

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