Intel announces DDR333 Chipsets: 3-way 845PE shootout

The Candidates

We split this review up into coverage of the chipset as well as a quick shootout of 845PE motherboards. We didn't focus on the 845GE as the chipset and its performance is identical to the 845PE but with support for integrated graphics.

Here are the three 845PE motherboards we will be testing and stressing here today:

1. Albatron PX845PEV Pro
2. ASUS P4PE
3. Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra

Intel also provided us with their enthusiast class 845PE motherboard, but because of the unique nature of the motherboard (an Intel made enthusiast board is a rare find) we will be devoting a separate article to that motherboard later this week.

Intel's Blue Mountain 2 enthusiast class 845PE motherboard

Even though our review of Intel's enthusiast board won't be up until later this week, we have included benchmarks of the board anyway, as well as a handful of other competitors in the performance section.