DFI LANParty PRO875 Review - DFI LANParty PRO875 Review
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Manufacturer: | DFI |
| Product: | LANParty PRO875 Canterwood Mobo |
Price: | USD$196 |
Availability: | NOW |
Reviewed By: | Jim "Justi" Miller |
Review Date: | June 2003 |
DFI LANParty PRO875 Canterwood Motherboard
(Benchmarking Continued...)
SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks:
CPU Multimedia Benchmark:
Now this is what we expected to see but hoped that we wouldn't. At default speeds the edge goes to the DFI Canterwood LANParty board with it's PAT from the chipset helping it out. However, when we go to the overclocked speeds, the overclocking limitations of the DFI board show clearly. The IS7 running it's ever so slightly faster overclock, and it's ability to handle the memory at a 5/4 divider clearly blows the DFI away.
PiFast Calculations Benchmarks:
This is a benchmark that I really like to use, especially for CPU/Motherboard reviews. It is as simple as it's title insinuates. It measures the time necessary for the system to calculate Pi. This of course is excessively CPU dependant, but we've found the system bus and chipset performance to also play a role in the score.
Here's the settings we used:
Program : PiFast version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon
Computation of 10000000 digits of Pi
Method used : Chudnovsky
Size of FFT : 1024 K
Physical memory used : ~ 61355 K
Disk memory used : ~ 0.00 Meg
Ok, let's take a look at the results:
While there isn't an unimpressive score listed above, again we see the limitations we ran into overclocking the DFI board getting in the way. The PAT featured on the DFI LANParty may have helped a bit, checking in at 4/10sec faster at default speeds, but the additional memory bus available to us on the IS7 overclock overcomes it easily.
Unreal Tournament 2003 CPU Benchmark:
We chose to throw some 3D gaming benchmarks into the mix here to show what we can expect, performance wise, in real world applications that you are sure to use. We used the Hardocp.com UT03 benchmarking utility to complete these benchmarks on even ground. What we've decided to show you is the 640x480 CPU test to see which motherboard is best able to push the identical processor..
This story is getting redundant. Again we see that the Canterwood DFI offers a slight edge at default settings, but the IS7 with just that little bit of extra speed and the higher memory bus wins in the overclocking arena. Again I want to point out that we used the same CPU and memory on both boards, we were simply able to push a little harder and remain stable with the IS7.
Aquamark Benchmark:
Aquamark is a 3D benchmark that is based exclusively on the Aquanox game engine. We've taken a liking to this benchmark as of late because it's easy to run and replicate, yet shows a good example of performance gains and losses..
Now this is relatively interesting. In this round the DFI was able to pull out slight gains across the board, both at default and overclocked settings.
Alright, lets head over to the last page and check out 3dMark01 and 3dMark03 results, as well as wrap this thing up...
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