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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Performance Tests
DirectX 8 & OpenGL Gaming
The same pattern continues in DX8 and Open GL games. The Asus is the winner among Intel boards most of the time, though the difference between the Abit and Asus is normally small. In the older games, AMD Athlon 64 continues to dominate the benchmarks.
General Performance
Intel generally performs better in FutureMark benchmarks than Athlon 64, and that continues with PCMark 2004. The coming E die Athlon 64's will likely close this gap somewhat, since they will support many SSE3 instructions.
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ceefka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
oh yeah and of course EE, 1-2MB caches.ceefka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
#12 Makes you wonder why Asus would go through their trouble ;-) The 1394b is nice of course, but not with a CPU like that. If a boost in FSB isn't doing it for Intel, then what will?#8 I have been wondering about Intel's answer to AMD64 since it came out. There's no (real) answer still, but we've seen Prescott, 1066 FSB, DDR2, BTX and 3.8GHz. They're missing a key element to improve performance and it's not been in the above.
jimmy43 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
This is depressing...I honestly dont see the point of any of these intel reviews, its like their purpose is to remind us occasionaly about that other company that makes cpus, what was their name? OH RIGHT! IntelAikouka - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
It's nice to see ASUS whomp on the sell-out and his fancy little board ;). But I think the Gigabyte NF4 board Anandtech showed a little bit ago may either win or tie in features. The Gigabyte board does lack an awesome sound codec, though.Maybe nVidia will be the saving grace of Intel like it was for AMD back in the nForce 2 days. We certainly know VIA wasn't helping to raise performance by a lot :P.
j@cko - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Obviously, Intel didn't learn from it's previous lessons..j@cko - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Moving to new standard is a rather old trick from Intel. If you look back at Pentium III with PC1333 in which involved VIA's PC133 and INtel's RAMBUS...Now, Intel is doing it again... While cannot beat AMD with its DDR, they move on to DDR II...
overclockingoodness - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
It is being speculated that dual-core from Intel and AMD will bring them closer in performance, but until then Intel is in deep waters. Seriously, what was the world's largest chip maker thinking by moving to newer standards so suddenly?While Intel is facing some serious loses right now, I have a feeling that Intel may get the last laugh in a couple years when it is back in lead. By that time, all these technologies will mature and slowly start to spread out in the market. AMD is moving to PCIe soon so that's good news, but what about DDR2?
Ah well, it's a constant debate that will never settle. :)
Bozo Galora - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Intel has checkmated itself.They have no options - except dual core.
robbase29a - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
So Mr. Fink, did you say that you can put an intel 560 in this and it would still work, and probably work better than in a 925x motherboard? I would like to see those numbers along with some overclocking numbers too.bob661 - Monday, November 29, 2004 - link
Oh, one more thing. Let the flaming begin!!!!!