Testing
Sisoft 
Sandra 2001 Pro CPU benchmark
 
    
       
        | Tyan 
            i815T  | CPU 
            Dhrystone 3374 | FPU 
            Whetstone 1617 | 
       
        | Soltek 
            SL-75DRV  | CPU 
            Dhrystone 3389 | FPU 
            Whetstone 1658 | 
    
   
 
Right after I tell you that we won't use the 
SL-75DRV's numbers I came across this very good comparison. I had to throw in 
the numbers for the Soltek DDR board so you can see just how impressive a score 
the Tyan Tomcat i815T obtained. It would be nice if all CPUs with similar clock 
ratings would obtain such similar scores.  
You can download Sandra here. 
Sisoft 
Sandra 2001 Pro Memory Streaming benchmark
 
    
       
        | Tyan 
            i815T  | ALU/RAM 
            Bandwidth 256 | FPU/RAM 
            Bandwidth 255 | 
       
        | Soltek 
            SL-75KAV  | ALU/RAM 
            Bandwidth 455 | FPU/RAM 
            Bandwidth 587 | 
    
    We 
went back to the PC133 based Soltek SL-75KAV so that we could compare PC133 preformance 
between the two boards. I have to wonder if this is some sort of anomoly - the 
same stick of memory between the two boards is giving extremely different results. 
I am actually quite surpised by this as you'll see there are more close comparisons 
to follow. I repeated this test several times 
trying to make changes in the BIOS but I could not find the reason that the Tomcat 
scored so low on this benchmark.
 