Quake / Linux

I don't think that gamers are interested in Quake performance, but most modern games do not measure so accurately the CPU's performance as Quake does. Take a look below to Quake III results and notice that overclocking doesn't bring a spectacular performance increase.

The same trend is kept in Quake: Epox leading the field and DFI at a small difference behind MSI. The above results are the mathematical average of ten Quake timedemo loops. Such small differences could not be recorded accurately in only one session due to results inconsistency.

Linux compilation test is also an inconsistent test. We had to compile the kernel for five different times to get the above results. As you can see under Linux DFI surprised with a very good performance. AD70-SR succeeded to compile the kernel in a time between Epox and MSI.

The test session didn't display an amazing performance for the DFI AD70-SR. But we have to consider that it scored almost as good as a motherboard much more expensive. We tested the systems with all the three memory slots filled to discover and address potential memory problems (a total of 768Mb RAM) and it's possible for DFI AD70-SR to score better with only 256Mb.