The Soltek SL-865Pro- 775 is exactly what some of you have been looking for. You get to choose a new, faster Prescott LGA 775 processor and still use your AGP 8X video card and fast DDR memory. It is also nice that you can build this hybrid solution without really giving up anything in performance. Across all the game benchmarks and PCMark 2004, the Soltek was certainly competitive with the new mainstream 915 chipset. It either placed between the high-end 925X boards and the 915, or it the performance was right in line with the 915 results. Considering that DDR2 is running at 533 versus the 400 for DDR400, this close performance is pretty remarkable. As we have stated in other reviews, the higher latency of DDR2-533 offsets a lot of the gains from the speed increase.
Soltek positions the 865Pro-775 as a member of their high-end PRO series, and the feature set certainly fits. You get all the standard features found on other 865 boards like SATA and 8 USB ports, plus the enhanced features of additional Promise SATA and IDE ports, two firewire ports, and 6-channel AC97 2.2 audio. The BIOS options also support just about anything an average overclocker might want, which allows the 865Pro-775 to reach overclock levels many 915 boards can not begin to approach.
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Wonga - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
Sorry to be picky, but there is another mistake on the 'Test Setup' page, where it states it is going to be compared with an Athlon FX53, but that isn't in the review. Might wanna correct that. Like I say, sorry to be picky :)matman326 - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I know you guys are busy ,but man I hope you guys are planning an extreme overclocking review with this board... kind curious how fast the prescot can go.RyanVM - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
#7 - NoWesley Fink - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
#4 - "Return to Castle Wofenstein - Enemy Territory" is our updated OpenGL game that will eventually replace Quake 3 in our benches. Results for Q3 and RCW-ET are both included.Brian23 - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
Isn't Doom 3 a DirectX game?Spacecomber - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I thought that I had read how the new Intel chipsets were optimized for the Prescott core (and vice versa) and that we could expect to see better performance out of the Prescotts on these new chipsets. Where is it? Or, is it the high latency DDR2 that's masking this?Wesley Fink - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I apologize for the post appearing while it was being created online. I am posting this on the fly while I am traveling home from Anand's wedding.This article was scheduled to go live at noon Monday, but that did not happen for technical reasons. I ended up recreating it from files and docs on my laptop.
nitromullet - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
Looks like they got that issue fixed. Next question, why didn't they replace Quake3 with Doom3 as the new OpenGL benchmark? I mean, these rigs run Quake3 at almost 450 FPS...PMChris - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
Yeah, like #1 said, this publish attempt was really bad. It should've piqued an editor's attention when the product being reviewed fails to appear in any benchmark table.Octunar99 - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
haha, I thought I was going crazy. I am glad I am not the only person not seeing this.