There's a interesting transition going on with both Motherboards.org and Gamepyre's test test software in our motherboard reviews. This is a bit of a transition review. First thing you'll notice is that I changed the videocard used in this review from the AIW 9700 Pro from my last review to the AIW 9800 Pro. This will be our standard test videocard from now on. 2nd is the use of Aquamark 3. This test is one of the newer benchmarks that support DirectX 9. Shortly, we'll be adding Sysmark 2004, and the Half Life 2 benchmark to our test suite.

Test System Specs
• Aopen A4XSPE Max Motherboard
• 2x256 MB DDR400 memory running@ 333 MHz in Dual Channel mode
• Intel 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 533 MHz FSB
• Onboard sound
• ATI AIW 9800 Pro videocard running at 380/340 using Cat 3.7s
• DX8.1 for Sysmark 2001, SpecViewPerf 7.1 tests, DX9.0b used in other tests

Test Software
• Sysmark 2002
• 3dmark 2001 SE Build 330
• SpecViewPerf 7.0
• Quake3 Arena Build 1.16n
• Aquamark 3-score: 39330