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ASUS
P5K Deluxe (Intel P35) mainboard review - SISOFT SANDRA XI
Bluetooth 26 May 2007
Benchmarks
Sandra XI
The boards
are first measured to ensure accuracy of CLK. In CPUZ test, we see that the CLK
of the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 is at 266.7 while the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA is at
266.1MHz. The Gigabyte P35-DQ6 and the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R stays at the 266.7MHz
mark.
In the tests to follow, the Gigabyte
P35-DQ6 board is run with 2GB of Corsair DDR2 running at CAS 5, 5-5-18 DDR2-800
mode while the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA will run in DDR mode with 1GB of Corsair
memory at CAS 2, 2-2-5, 1T cmd and in DDR2 mode, it is run with the same pair of
DDR2 modules (2GB) running at CAS 3, 3-3-8, 1T cmd DDR2-533. The ECS PN2 SLI2+
runs at 266.7 which is just exactly at the same clk speed as the Gigabyte
GA-965P-DQ6. ASUS on the other hand has its 0505 bios tuned to 267.3MHz, that is
a big higher than the rest of the boards in comparison. Will it give it a better
edge during the benchmarks.
The ASUS P5K3 Deluxe uses a pair of Kingston
DDR3-1333 modules. As the chipset does not support running async setting of
CPU=266 and RAM at 667 (DDR3-1333), we have to run it at DDR3-1066. The ASUS P5K
Deluxe runs with DDR2-1066 at CAS 5, 7-7-18 whereas the ASUS P5K3 Deluxe runs at
DDR3-1066 at CAS 7-7-7-20 (SPD)
From the chart below, we can see that the running
at DDR3-1066 gives no advantage in bandwidth as it is running in ASYnc
DDR3-1066. In fact, the bandwidth scores might be hampered by it CAS 7 rating.
It only score 5790. On the other hand, the P5K Deluxe which we paired up with
2GB runing at DDR2-1066, CAS 5, 7-7-18 did better.
As we mentioned earlier, DDR3-1333 is better paired
off with CPU running at 333MHz (1333FSB), would that be the case ? We will look
at it at the end of the review.
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