The Gigabyte board looked like a typical production 7IX motherboard. I am told that the newer north bridges are already being shipped on motherboards. Here' s a picture of the Gigabyte 7IX platform I used. To get an idea of the performance impact with some typical business applications I used SYSmark98 and tested it under Windows 98 and NT 4.0. 3D games are probably some of the most CPU intensive applications.
Gaming however is very critical to CPU and video performance.
If there isn't enough horsepower the game play is critically affected. To exercise the impact that super bypass has on gaming I chose a large suite of 3D applications. It provides an overall 3D performance tests in various game environments. This benchmark was ran at the lower 640x480x16 resolution to keep the video board from becoming the bottleneck. With a given CPU the scores usually stay the same no matter what CPU frequency is being used.