Synthetic – SiSoft Sandra, Everest

SiSoft Sandra 2005

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ABIT AG8 (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Chaintech V915P (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Intel i915P with DDR2 – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2

VIA K8T800 Pro – Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR

NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 – Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR

Not surprisingly CPU performance is identical across all three Intel 915P systems since they are all using the same Pentium 4 560E CPU.

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ABIT AG8 (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Chaintech V915P (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Intel i915P with DDR2 – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2

VIA K8T800 Pro – Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR

NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 – Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR

As we will see again shortly in the Everest memory test, memory performance on the ABIT AG8 is slightly slower than the DDR2 version of the chipset. Also, as we go further into this review, we will see that this difference in memory performance has marginal effects.

Everest Home Edition

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ABIT AG8 (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Chaintech V915P (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Intel i915P with DDR2 – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2

VIA K8T800 Pro – Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR

NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 – Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR

The ABIT AG8 has some pretty high latency performing transactions to and from the system memory. Latency in itself isn’t bad as long as it is handled efficiently as we will see in the next test.

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ABIT AG8 (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Chaintech V915P (i915P) – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR

Intel i915P with DDR2 – Pentium 4 560E, 1GB DDR2

VIA K8T800 Pro – Athlon 64 3200+ (754 pin), 1GB DDR

NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400 – Athlon XP3200+, 1GB DDR

Even though the AG8 has some high latencies reported in the last test, we see here that the delays have little effect on overall memory performance. It ends up performing better than the K8T800 Pro system, even though the K8T800 Pro has lower latency.

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