Albatron PX865PE Pro II (865PE): It's Springdale Time

Performance Test Configuration

All performance tests run on 865PE 875P-based motherboards utilized two 256MB Corsair TwinX PC3200 modules set to CAS 2/2T/5T/2T timings running in dual channel DDR400 mode. Any other performance-enhancing timings (like Command Rate or Bank Interleave) were enabled in 865PE and 875P-based motherboards that contained such timings.

Unfortunately we were unable to find a SiS 655 motherboard (and that includes the Gigabyte SINXP1394 used in our 800MHz FSB preview) that could run an 800MHz FSB CPU, with or without HT enabled. We were also unable to find an E7205, 850E, or SiS R658 motherboard that could run these same 800MHz FSB processors. There's a possibility that your motherboard vendor will release a BIOS update to enable 800MHz FSB support on these boards, but we've been told this is highly unlikely, so don't hold your breath. Therefore, users should not expect their current SiS 655, SiS R658, E7205, or 850E motherboard to run an official 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processor.

May 23rd, 2003 Update: We forgot to mention that we encountered occasional warm reboot issues with Corsair TwinX memory modules with timings set to CAS2/2T/5T/2T. The system would fail to POST, however we only experienced this problem once every 15 reboots or so.