For our benchmarking of the SOYO SY-TISU, we've included comparison benchmarks from an Intel D815EEA2 motherboard. Although boards differ slightly - the Intel comes with on-board video for example - we've opted to use the Intel as a baseline for all future reviews with the Tualatin 1.20GHz. processor.
 | | HotHardware Test Systems | | Zesty... | |
| Intel Pentium III "Tualatin" 1.20GHz. Global Win FOP38 7000RPM Cooler 256 Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+ RAM Soyo SY-TISU Motherboard Gigabyte GeForce 3 Video card 15GB IBM 7200RPM ATA 100 Hercules Game Theater XP Windows Millennium Direct X 8.0a Intel ATA Storage Drivers 6.1 nVidia reference drivers version 12.41 | Intel Pentium III "Tualatin" 1.20GHz. Global Win FOP38 7000RPM Cooler 256 Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+ RAM Intel D815EEA2 Motherboard Gigabyte GeForce 3 Video card 15GB IBM 7200RPM ATA 100 Hercules Game Theater XP Windows Millennium Direct X 8.0a Intel ATA Storage Drivers 6.1 nVidia reference drivers version 12.41 |
Now that we have the board in place and ready to roll, let's take a look and see how the numbers added up against the baseline.
 | | Business and Content Creation Winstone | | Bring it on. | |
The first test we ran was Business Winstone 2001, an acid test of today's intensive business-oriented applications. We followed that up with a solid helping of Content Creation Winstone 2001, which stresses system performance with graphic applications such as Adobe Photoshop 5.5.
As you can see, the SOYO SY-TISU delivered performance virtually identical to that of the Intel D815EEA2 motherboard. Take note that these are excellent numbers for a Pentium III processor. This is where the features of the Tualatin processor combined with the i815 chipset get to strut their stuff.
Now we will take a breather from benchmarking for a moment so we can start tinkering with some FSB settings and see what this setup can do.
 | | Overclocking The Soyo SY-TISU Motherboard | | Taking it to the limit... | |
With the Soyo SY-TISU motherboard, we had no difficulty pumping the FSB up to 163MHz., pushing the "Tualatin" to a hefty 1.47GHz. This was done without a single voltage adjustment whatsoever! On the next page we've put together a side-by-side comparison with Sandra 2001te, showing performance at both default and overclocked speed.
Sandra, Quake 3, 3DMark, and Final Thoughts...
