Performance Test Configuration: 2.8E vs 2.8C
Frankly, our first tests were designed to be an unfair comparison. Since the Intel 865G is used for comparisons of the on-board graphics later in the review, we compared the 2.8E and 2.8C on the RS350 Reference Board and a top-performing Intel 875P motherboard. We think you will find the performance results very interesting.| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | Intel 2.8E Prescott (Retail) Intel 2.8C Northwood (Retail) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd OR 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200RPM (8Mb buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | ATI Platform Driver 8.01 Beta Intel Chipset Drivers |
| Video Card(s): | ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X) |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.4 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | ATI 9100 IGP PRO Reference Board Asus P4C800-E (i875) |
All benchmarks were run on both boards with our current standard ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card. We also used our standard Winbond BH5 DIMMs for testing, which provided another disadvantage for the ATI RS350, since the fastest stable timings that we could achieve on the RS350 were 2-2-3-5 compared to 2-2-2-5 on the Asus P4C800-E.
As is our normal test procedure, AGP Aperture was set to 128MB with Fast Write enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32.
Since all new tests were run to compare performance of the 2.8E and 2.8C, we included PCMark2004 from FutureMark in our comparison. We have been running PCMark2004 on all recent motherboard tests to establish a database to include PCMark 2004 in future motherboard and system tests.
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araczynski - Monday, May 3, 2004 - link
Who that comes to this site give a flying f*ck about integrated graphics?? Whether you're comparing a Yugo GV or a Yugo GVX, ITS STILL A FRICKING YUGO!!!where are the x800 bencharks?? that's what we care about.
Regs - Monday, May 3, 2004 - link
To bad the 2.8 Prescott's are worthless considering how they hardly out shine their Northwood counter parts. But it's interesting to see how a Prescott tweaked mobo performed.Marsumane - Monday, May 3, 2004 - link
Integrated graphics that still suck!Although they are just like the comparison between the 9800xt and the 6800u. 2x as fast)
MAME - Monday, May 3, 2004 - link
nVidia -> King of AthlonXPsATI -> King of Prescotts