Biostar iDEQ 200T: Great Performance & Brilliant Design
by Wesley Fink on September 29, 2003 10:24 PM EST- Posted in
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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.
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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.