FIRST LOOK: Asus P5AD2-E - 1066FSB & DDR2-711
by Wesley Fink on November 29, 2004 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
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DirectX 9 Gaming
If you refer to test results in the 925XE launch review, you will see that an apples to apples comparison at 3.2GHz (3.2EE/800 to 3.2EE/1066) showed virtually no difference in test results. This is a caution not to jump to conclusions about performance of the 3.46EE compared to the 3.6E in some benchmarks. The performance differences are the result of the larger cache on the 3.46EE and not the higher FSB.
As we have seen so often recently, the AMD Athlon 64 dominates DirectX 9 gaming. However, comparing the Intel boards, the Asus P5AD2-E is consistently the fastest board in almost every DX9 benchmark - edging out the Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE in most benchmarks.
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mkruer - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
I love Intel’s comment a while back when they stated that their version of dual core would be better because it “shares resource” between the cores.Monkeydonutstick - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#22 can you not read?classy - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
LOL Dothan. Unless you can oc that bad boy extremely it will get crushed by an A64. It does better at gaming than desktop Intel chips, but performs poorly at rendering and the like. Stop with Pentium M Dothan nonsense. And by the way, the motherboards are priced in server board territory. Lets OC an Athlon 64 platform and see the scorching the Dothan will get.Monkeydonutstick - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=nav...ariafrost - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
But Dothan doesn't scale up to high clock speeds and won't compete directly with Athlon 64 procs...Monkeydonutstick - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Try Dothan with a faster bus. preliminary benchmarks show a clock for clock intel advantageWesley Fink - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#17 - This is a First Look review and not a full motherboard review. As we explained when we launched First Look, we will use that format to bring more motherboard reviews more quickly to AnandTech readers. PCMark 04 is used to provide a braod General Performance comparison that includes media encoding in the benchmark.We did run a full suite of benchmarks for future comparisons, but nothing really changes.
925XE/3.46EE - 925X/3.6E - nF4/FX55 - Benchmark
34.1 - 34.4 - 39.3 - MM Content Creation 04
26.7 - 26.5 - 31.1 - Business Winstone 04
73.1 - 73.4 - 69.1 - AutoGK DivX 5.1.1
danidentity - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#13 - Ugh, Intel's answer is EM64T, which is functionally identical to AMD64 and is fully compatible with it. CPUs supporting it will be on sale before WinXP-64 is released.About the review, WHY do you have a ton of gaming benchmarks and only a single solitary non-gaming benchmark. Do you think the people who read your reviews do nothing but play games? I'd like to see an equal number of non-gaming benchmarks. Content creation, business apps, encoding, etc.
Also, why didn't you test an 800MHz FSB CPU in this board? The overclocking potential is much better because of the 1066MHz FSB support.
smn198 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
No. I didn't have a pre-production 50MHz CPU ;)I meant 550MHz
smn198 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Haven't bought an Intel CPU since I had my K7 50Mhz a long time ago but I really did like my PII 233 @ 350. I'd switch back to Intel in an instant if they offered better price:performance.