. Gigabyte P35-DQ6 (Intel P35) mainboard review - Sandra 2007
Bluetooth 8 May 2007

Benchmarks

Sandra 07

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 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 first test is running the memory at CAS 5,5-5-18,2T at DDR2-800, the second test is run at DDR2-1066 @ CAS 5, 7-7-20, 2T. Will a higher memory clk give better results, press on.

From the chart below, we can see that the Gigabyte P35-DQ6 scores 5686/5690 (DDR2-1066) and 5450/5452 (DDR2-800). This is quite an interesting scoreline because it seems to run better with DDR2-1066. When the setting is put at DDR2-800, the memory bandwidth drops below that of its little brother the 965p-DQ6.

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