FIRST LOOK: Asus P5AD2-E - 1066FSB & DDR2-711
by Wesley Fink on November 29, 2004 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
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Test Setup
We compared the performance of the Asus P5AD2-E to the Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE (925XE), the Intel 925X motherboard, and the Asus P5AD2 Premium (925X). We tested with the 3.6Ghz 800FSB Intel 560 CPU on the 925X, and the 3.46EE 1066FSB CPU on the 925XE boards. We also included results for the fastest current A64 processors - the FX55 and the 4000+ on the nForce 4 PCI Express Reference board. To remove the video card as a performance factor, all benchmarks were run with the PCI Express nVidia 6800 Ultra.| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | Intel 3.46EE (1066FSB) Socket 775 Intel 560 (3.6GHz) Socket 775 AMD FX55 (2.6Ghz) Socket 939 AMD 4000+ (2.4GHz) Socket 939 |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR2-533 2 x 512MB OCZ 3200 Platinum Rev. 2 DDR |
| Hard Drive(s): | Maxtor 250GB MaXLine III (16MB buffer) |
| Video Card(s): | nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra PCIe |
| Video Drivers: | nVidia 61.77 Graphics Drivers |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Power Supply: | OCZ Power Stream 520 (520W) |
| Motherboards: | Asus P5AD2-E (Intel 925XE) Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE (Intel 925XE) Asus P5AD2 Premium (Intel 925X) Intel 925XCV (Intel 925X) nVidia nForce 4 Reference Board |
The configuration was kept as close as possible between the 3 motherboards, but we are forced to compare DDR400 memory at 2-2-2-10 to DDR2-533 at 3-3-3-10. However, as we saw in the DDR vs. DDR2 review, the performance of fast DDR400 and DDR533 is very close.
In the Performance graphs, the tested Asus P5AD2-E board is in Dark Blue. Other Intel-based motherboards are in Light Blue. Athlon 64 reference results are in Green - Light Green for FX55 and Dark Green for 4000+.
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ceefka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
oh yeah and of course EE, 1-2MB caches.ceefka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#12 Makes you wonder why Asus would go through their trouble ;-) The 1394b is nice of course, but not with a CPU like that. If a boost in FSB isn't doing it for Intel, then what will?#8 I have been wondering about Intel's answer to AMD64 since it came out. There's no (real) answer still, but we've seen Prescott, 1066 FSB, DDR2, BTX and 3.8GHz. They're missing a key element to improve performance and it's not been in the above.
jimmy43 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
This is depressing...I honestly dont see the point of any of these intel reviews, its like their purpose is to remind us occasionaly about that other company that makes cpus, what was their name? OH RIGHT! IntelAikouka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
It's nice to see ASUS whomp on the sell-out and his fancy little board ;). But I think the Gigabyte NF4 board Anandtech showed a little bit ago may either win or tie in features. The Gigabyte board does lack an awesome sound codec, though.Maybe nVidia will be the saving grace of Intel like it was for AMD back in the nForce 2 days. We certainly know VIA wasn't helping to raise performance by a lot :P.
j@cko - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Obviously, Intel didn't learn from it's previous lessons..j@cko - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Moving to new standard is a rather old trick from Intel. If you look back at Pentium III with PC1333 in which involved VIA's PC133 and INtel's RAMBUS...Now, Intel is doing it again... While cannot beat AMD with its DDR, they move on to DDR II...
overclockingoodness - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
It is being speculated that dual-core from Intel and AMD will bring them closer in performance, but until then Intel is in deep waters. Seriously, what was the world's largest chip maker thinking by moving to newer standards so suddenly?While Intel is facing some serious loses right now, I have a feeling that Intel may get the last laugh in a couple years when it is back in lead. By that time, all these technologies will mature and slowly start to spread out in the market. AMD is moving to PCIe soon so that's good news, but what about DDR2?
Ah well, it's a constant debate that will never settle. :)
Bozo Galora - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Intel has checkmated itself.They have no options - except dual core.
robbase29a - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
So Mr. Fink, did you say that you can put an intel 560 in this and it would still work, and probably work better than in a 925x motherboard? I would like to see those numbers along with some overclocking numbers too.bob661 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Oh, one more thing. Let the flaming begin!!!!!