Intel P35 / X38 Motherboards Roundup
Performance tests
In our test setup, we used the following hardware:
We used a customary set of application benchmarks. In the previous roundup review, we highlighted systems equipped with DDR-3 in yellow and thus showed that there was no speed advantage for this memory type as compared to DDR-2. Today, we are highlighting motherboards based on Intel X38 with the same color for the same purpose: to show that the speeds for P35 and X38 are equal.
Let's first take a look at the results of synthetic benchmarks.
These are exclusively synthetic benchmarks which demonstrate the theoretical performance.
Now - tests of real applications (the red color stands for the results produced for DDR3).
We are not dwelling on the performance, because all the boards showed approximately the same performance. The difference in speed between the boards is small enough, and any slight update to the BIOS can turn the table upside down. Therefore, we'll be making the choice of a motherboard following different criteria such as operational stability, expansion options, package bundle, compatibility to various components, compatibility to memory modules, and the price of the boards.
It is much more interesting to look at the graph of overclocking results:
We note that all our previous assumptions on the FSB Wall of the tested CPU have proved wrong. On ASUS Maximus Extreme and P5E3 Deluxe, the E6550 ran at FSB = 568MHz, which is the best achievement for all the LGA775 motherboards in question.
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