Foxconn 955X7AA, Intel LGA 775 Motherboard Review - Synthetic Benchmarks
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Synthetic Benchmarks
We're going to be running our testbed at stock settings and overclocked to L4. Here are the specs for our test system in these benchmarks:
- Intel Pentium D 920 Presler, with stock cooling
- Corsair XMS2 5400c4, DDR 675, 1 GB (2 x 512 MB) Dual Channel kit (4-4-4-12 at 1.9v)
- Powercolor X1600XT 256 MB Bravo
- Foxconn 955x7aa-8ekrs2 motherboard
- Antec TruepowerII 480 power supply
SuperPi is our first test. It times how long it takes to calculate pi to whatever number we specify, so lower scores mean the system was running faster. I used the 1 and 2 million digits settings. Also, to show how well the system handles multiple threads, I ran the test three times, with 1, 2, and 4 instances of SuperPi calculating simultaneously. So, 1M is SuperPi running the 1 million digit test; 1M x2 is two SuperPis running the 1M test; 1M x4 is four different threads going at once.
SuperPi | Foxconn 955x | Foxconn 955x Overclock L4 | % Change |
1M | 45 | 38 | 18.4% |
1M x2 | 47 | 38 | 23.7% |
1M x4 | 91 | 77 | 18.2% |
2M | 105 | 87 | 20.7% |
2M x2 | 108 | 89 | 21.3% |
2M x4 | 213 | 179 | 19.0% |
This is a pretty CPU intensive test, and it looks like the L4 overclock gives us a solid 20% overclock. That's definitely good. As expected, running 2 threads of SuperPi at once is the same speed as running 1, thanks to the dual core processor. Calculating 4 SuperPi tests at once slows them all down to half the speed.
Sisoft Sandra is our next benchmark. In this one, we just took our system's overclocked values to compare them to the reference guides provided by the benchmark program.
Sandra CPU Arithmetic
CPU Multimedia
Memory Bandwidth
It looks like our overclocked Presler 920 in this Foxconn motherboard has a CPU arithmetic score that is slightly higher than an X2 4000+ (the X2 being a processor that costs more than $100 more than a 920). In the multimedia test, the two processors are very comparable again; the Intel pulls ahead in Floating-Point and the X2 pulls ahead in Integer tests. The other processors fall way behind. In the memory bandwidth test, the overclocked Foxconn 955x leaves the reference 955x scores way behind.
Seeing our performance in games is important too, so let's take a look at Futuremark 3D Mark 2003 and 2005.
These tests are artificial, but it looks like the L4 overclock buys us just 2-3% improvement. Of course, the tests also weigh video card performance as the most important part of the system, so a video overclock would have more impact. Let's look at two real game tests instead.
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