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Workstation Performance

Performance of the Gigabyte 8N SLI Quad Royal is consistent and except for the catia-01 test, it falls behind the Abit NI8 SLI, but stays slightly ahead of the MSI P4N Diamond. It is obvious that the better memory performance of the Abit board allows it stay comfortably in the lead.

The only surprise in the 3D Workstation tests was the inability of the Gigabyte GA-8I955x Royal based on the Intel 955x chipset to complete the test. We are currently awaiting a new BIOS to retest this suite.