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Intel D975XBX: Intel brings their Bad-Axe to Market

 by Gary Key on January 26, 2006 12:05 AM EST
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Memory Performance

Memory Bandwidth Comparison - Read Performance

Memory Bandwidth Comparison - Write Performance

Memory Latency Comparison

We recently switched to version 2.50 of Everest, so these scores are not comparable to previous tests with version 2.20. The memory latency test continues to show a 10% advantage for the nForce4's memory controller. The Intel D975XBX's performance explains the lower scores in our synthetic benchmarks and other benchmarks. Hopefully, Intel will be able to extract additional performance in future BIOS releases.

Overclocking Performance

The overclocking performance graphs have been added to the standard benchmark test suite and should allow for a better comparison on the overclocking capabilities of tested boards. For more details on the specific overclocking abilities of this board, please refer to the Overclocking and Memory Stress Test section in the Basic Features section.

Overclocking

Overclocking

The front side bus overclocking results are impressive for the other Intel 975x boards and still exceed those of the Asus P5N32-SLI. The Intel D975XBX board cannot compete with the other 975x based boards at this time. The BIOS options available certainly hinder this board compared to the more performance-oriented solutions from Asus and Gigabyte. We certainly feel the board is designed well and has the capability of matching the other solutions provided that the BIOS is properly tuned and the FSB options are extended.

General Performance & Encoding Gaming Performance
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  • ruprecht - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link

    What the hell is wrong with Americans? Just say bad ass, it's hardly a hard-core expletive!

  • yacoub - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link

    Professional image versus immaturity. Anandtech has a professional image and likely wants to maintain it.

  • Griswold - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link

    ...land of the free. Whatever.

  • DigitalFreak - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link

    We're prudes! Well, not me, but...

  • Avalon - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link

    This board is pretty pitiful, IMO, when several other solutions out there can outpace it. Unless the board is offered cheaper than the competition, I see no reason to buy it.

  • JarredWalton - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link

    Intel's proven reliability and support. Some people will happily give up 10% or more performance just for a major name like Intel. I'm not one of them, but they do exist.... :)

  • yacoub - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link

    But you pay a lot more for it...

  • Zebo - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link

    No knowledgeable computer hardware expert seriously believes that there is enough of a stability difference between the platforms to warrant a scientific comparison or research study by an objective outsider. Most "issues" stem from OE or bloated buggy SW and drivers, simple as that - not the hardware itself.

    Toms tries such a comparison but as you know a sample size of one is'nt very scientific so we'll discount intels 11 reboots two Asus boards, two intel boards, one gigabit board to AMD's 0 reboots in the stress test.:D:)

  • Zebo - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link

    Or should I say where's the proof over anything else? Sounds like urban legend to me. Something the intel boys claim with almost programed resposivness then stop replying in that thread once asked for proof.

  • Sunbird - Thursday, January 26, 2006 - link

    Excuse my ignorance, is Bad Axe a new american slang word?
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