Other than that, Windows 98 installed smoothly with no problems apparent. Do note that Quake3 scores were taken with sound enabled. We used Business Winstone 99 and Content Creation Winstone 2000 to evaluate performance of the tested boards. The test focuses on top-selling Internet content creation applications. Each test was run 3 times with the result being the average value of the 3 test runs.
Higher scores indicate better performance.
Business Winstone performance of the K7VTA sits amongst the top performance wise. It lags behind the DFI boards in this arena but only by a slight margin. Content Creation Winstone 2000 scores show a different story with both Soyo motherboards clinching top spot. A similar turn of events here where our Soyo sample was able to give a near 3 FPS boost in performance. As you will see in the next section, this is attributed to the high memory bandwidth scores that we obtained.