ECS P4M800PRO-M V2.0 (VIA P4M800 Pro chipset) for Core 2 Duo / Extreme Benchmarks 2/10
Bluetooth 24 Nov 2006

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Benchmarks

CPU FSB is still a valid and important criteria when judging systems performance. The board is measured for its default clk speed. Using CPU-Z it is detected as 266.1MHz which is half a megahertz below the standard 266.6MHz.

In the benchmark tests, we will be using two sets of RAM. The first is a set of 512MB DDR400 memory running at CAS 2. 2-2-5 1T cmd and another is a pair of 1GB DDR2-533 memory running at CAS 3, 3-3-8,1T.

As the chipset only supports up to DDR2-667, we chose to run it at DDR2-533 because the memory is running at 1:1 ratio, that is to say in SYNC with the CPU. Although one might get a slightly higher score in this benchmark if you choose to run in ASync mode say DDR2-667, there isn't much difference in the performance, in fact, it might get a bit slower in some benchmarks.

We then checked out the memory benchmarks of the chipset. It is a bit surprising that we get a score of only ~2000 points. This is largely due to the single channel DDR2 chipset P4M800Pro. The rest of the boards we have reviewed so far are dual channel memory chipsets. e.g. PT880Pro, 945P/G, 965P, 975X. Will single channel lose out to dual channel in the performance. We will reveal more in the following pages when we make reference to a dual channel board.

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