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HotHardware Test Systems |
Intel
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Albatron PX875 Pro
Motherboard
Abit AI7 865PE Motherboard
BFG Asylum GeForce FX
5700 Ultra 128MB
Pentium 4-C @ 2.4GHz
512MB Kingston HyperX
PC3500 DDR-RAM
Western Digital 30GB
ATA-100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Creative 52X CD-ROM
Windows XP Pro SP-1
DirectX 9.0b
NVIDIA Forceware v53.03 |
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SiSoft Sandra Professional 4
To get things
started, we loaded SiSoft Sandra Professional 4 and
ran several of the more common modules, such as the CPU,
Multimedia, and Memory tests. First we ran each test
at the default 2.4GHz processor speed and then with the FSB
set for 260MHz.
CPU @
2.4GHz.
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Multimedia @ 2.4GHz.
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Memory @ 400MHz.
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CPU @
3.12GHz.
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Multimedia @ 3.12GHz.
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Memory @ 416MHz.
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There is nothing too out of the
ordinary with the stock numbers we see here. At
default speeds, the Albatron PX875 Pro ranked inline with
the reference i875P system. Once we increased the FSB
to 260MHz and the memory to 416MHz, we saw a major
improvement in performance. Even with the memory set
to 1.6x FSB we saw a nice gain in memory bandwidth and the
CPU and MM scores clearly improved, coming quite close to
matching those of the 3.2GHz reference system. As we
progress in this review, we'll demonstrate what these gains
can yield in more real world type tests.
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FutureMark's PCMark 2004 Pro & 3DMark03 |
FutureMark's
Latest |
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One of the
newest all-in-one utilities for gauging a system's
performance is PCMark2004Pro. This replaces
PCMark2002Pro that has been a staple in just about every
motherboard review we've done since it was released.
The latest version adds some new modules as well as issuing
a total score that can be broken down into 4 modules; CPU,
Memory, Graphics and Hard Drive. From here on in we
will compare the results of the PX875 Pro to an i865PE based
board to see if the board that officially supports PAT has
any real performance advantage over the one with "Game
Accelerator" features.
In all of the
tests the two boards were neck-in-neck with the Albatron
model maintaining a slight edge over the i865PE comparison
board. What was more impressive is how the CPU, Memory
and Total scores surged when we overclocked the system
We saw significant gains across the board, ranging from 21%
in Total score to gains of 28% and 24% with CPU and Memory
scores respectively. Clearly, whether overclocked or
not, the PX875 Pro matched up well with our Pentium 4-C @
2.4GHz, yielding solid scores throughout the tests.
Gaming, The Winstones and Final Words |