Test System
- Intel D925XECV2 motherboard
- P4 3.4GHz EE 800MHz /3.46Ghz EE 1066MHz
- 1 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 533 MHz memory
- nVidia GEFORCE 6800GT reference card running 66.93 drivers
- Windows XP with SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
- On-board sound disabled
- 2X 36GB SATA Raptor 10,000 RPM RAID 0
Software
- Sysmark 2004 Patch 2
- 3dmark 2003 Build 340
- 3dmark 2001 Build 330
- PCMark04
- Quake 3 Timedemo 1
- UT2003 Flyby and Botmatch
- DivX
Performance at the 800MHz level was pretty much on par with what we have seen so far with the LGA775 platform and scores at the 1066MHz level were better than the 800MHz boards we have tested, but they actually fell short when compared against a few of the other first tier companies boards. Stability was never in question and the board performed without any errors during the testing and burn-in phase of this review. Like always with Intel stability is job one, and in that respect they offer no quarter as the board was rock solid stable.
We used two different CPUs in the testing of this board as one set of tests represents our ongoing comparison charts, while the other shows the board using the new 1066MHz 3.46GHz EE CPU. For compatibility we used 533MHz memory from Crucial, Corsair, Kingston, Mushkin and PQI just to see how well the board responded with a variety of memory. It did just fine with them all regardless of which CPU was being used. We also used many types of PCIe VGA cards by both NVIDIA and ATI and both had no shown errors. This was not by any means a faster than light speed board and its performance were mediocre, but it did show strong points in its compatibility and stability, which is very important to many user groups.
Scores Using 3.4GHz @1066MHz FSB
- Sysmark 2004 Patch 2 - 202
- 3dmark 2003 Build 340 - 11465
- 3dmark 2001 Build 330 - 22966
- PCMark04 - 5478
- Quake 3 Timedemo 1 - 506.9
- UT2003 Flyby and Botmatch - 297.88/101.1
- DivX - 55.2
Scores Using 3.4EEGHz @800MHz FSB
