Intel D845PEBT2 Blue Mountain 2 (845PE): Intel's Enthusiast Board

Content Creation & General Usage Performance

· Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop® 6.01, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5

· Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator® 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13.

Content Creation Performance Internet Content Creation SYSMark 2002 ASUS P4T533-C (850E-PC1066) Gigabyte 8SG667 (SiS 648-DDR400) Albatron PX845PEV Pro (845PE-DDR333) Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra (845PE-DDR333) ASUS P4GE-V (845GE-DDR333) ASUS P4PE (845PE-DDR333) Gigabyte 8SG667 (SiS 648-DDR333) Intel D845PEBT2 (845PE-DDR333) ASUS P4B533-V (845G-DDR333) ASUS P4B533-E (845E-DDR266) 303 300 299 298 298 297 296 296 293 281 | 0 | 61 | 121 | 182 | 242 | 303 | 364

 

General Usage Performance Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 ASUS P4T533-C (850E-PC1066) Gigabyte 8SG667 (SiS 648-DDR400) Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra (845PE-DDR333) Gigabyte 8SG667 (SiS 648-DDR333) Albatron PX845PEV Pro (845PE-DDR333) ASUS P4GE-V (845GE-DDR333) ASUS P4B533-V (845G-DDR333) Intel D845PEBT2 (845PE-DDR333) ASUS P4PE (845PE-DDR333) ASUS P4B533-E (845E-DDR266) 176 173 171 170 170 169 169 168 168 160 | 0 | 35 | 70 | 106 | 141 | 176 | 211

As you can see, Intel's board is towards the bottom of the pack in 845PE performance, but the performance delta is quite small, meaning you'll never really notice a difference between any of the 845PE platforms.