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Intel Pentium4 3.46 Extreme Edition / 925XE chipset
(Review by MS November 16)

Test Platforms

Intel supplied us with one of their D925XECV2 reference boards sporting the i925XE chipset, however, in order to keep as close to an apples to apples comparison as possible we did not use this board for benchmarking, instead, we reverted to the ASUS P5AD2-E using the same chipset. One of the reasons was quite simply that Intel production boards, even though rock solid do not carry the reputation of bleeding edge performers. This was especially true in the case of the original i925X platform launch where most later production boards outperformed the original offering by quite a margin. In other words, using a known "slower" board of the new platform to evaluate its performance against a known "fast" board of the earlier generation may somewhat skew the results.

         

Intel D925XECV2 and ASUS P5AD2-E mainboards

*FX55 denotes a Socket940 Athlon 64-FX53 running at 13 x multiplier for 2600 MHz core speed.
** We opted to run the system with a full 2 GB of Registered ECC memory since this is more likely to reflect a Socket 940 or Opteron setup than to only use 2 DIMMs. For gaming applications we did not see any difference between 1 GB or 2 GB of memory and even in standard multitasking applications such as those used here the impact on performance was. In other words, we did it because we could -- without any benefit.

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