Motherboards: Intel D850EMV2 Review :: Performance

Stability & Compatibility

You can review our stability/compatibility testing methods here.

Test System

• Intel D850EMV2 Motherboard
• Intel Pentium 4 2.0 CPU (Northwood core)
• 256MB Samsung RDRAM memory
• Base System specs

Stability was never an issue and the board passed all the torture tests we ran it through as most Intel boards do. The board did lose a few points in the arena though as one of our scores is based off a motherboard running stable in its overclocked state a test we could not run on this board. As far as overall performance goes this is one rock steady and performance oriented motherboard even at its default settings.

Performance

I ran the tests in two ways for this review. One way was our standard array of tests at 2.0GHz 256H L2 cache with a 400MHz FSB and the other running at 2.53MHz with 512K L2 cache at a 533MHz FSB and 512MB of RDRAM. The reasoning for doing this is so the motherboard can make it into the motherboard ranking charts and still be shown at what it can do with the latest technology under the hood.

Even at default settings the board showed promise in the performance arena and came in at the top end of its class. And ran with its faster 2.53 brethren the D850EMV2 is the fastest thing I have seen in the lab yet. The new 533MHz FSB seems to do the trick for the folks at Intel bringing them in on a faster and more stable platform then archrival AMD can touch at the moment.

SYSMark 2001 - 199

3DMark 2001 - 7394

SPECviewperf

Quake III - 170.5

Scores @ 2.53MHz

SYSMark 2002 - 251

3CMark - 7742

SPECviewperf

Quake III - 177.7