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Test
Setup
Epox 4PDA2+ Motherboard (Kindly supplied
by Epox)
Maxtor 80GB ATA133 HDD
2x256MB Corsair (TWINX3200LL) Memory
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz CPU (533MHz)
NVIDIA GeForceFX 5800 Ultra
Windows XP Pro + SP1
Because of some of the changes being
implemented here at 3DV including reconfiguring three
test systems we were caught a bit with our pants down
for this review. We didn't have an 800MHz FSB CPU
available to us at this stage which probably puts
us in the same boat as the overwhelming majority of
our readers
Although changes in our test system
have made it impossible to include accurate comparison
results in this review, we have several pending reviews
that will put these figures in perspective so watch
this space. As a guideline, the few comparisons we've
run so far seem to put the i865PE chipset some 3-5%
behind the i875 chipset in pure performance terms.
Let's look at the scores:
SiSoft
Sandra 2003
Although
synthetic in nature SiSoft's Sandra offers a valuable
insight towards overall performance levels.
Sandra Memory Bandwidth
Sandra Cache and Memory Performance
As expected the memory performance is
simply monstrous! Intel are clearly not suffering
from their decision to ditch Rambus in favour of cheaper
and more readily available DDR.
Sandra CPU Arithmetic
Sandra CPU Multimedia
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