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Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal motherboard is a dual core Pentium 4 processor compatible platform, built around Intel's very own 955X chipset.
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External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Aug 09 2005   M. Dowler  
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Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Processors Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400) 22543 30072 9417 3850 FPU / 6647 SSE2 5008 5025
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (925X 200/400) 24239 32071 10011 4082 FPU / 7070 SSE2 5374 5359
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (915P 200/400) 22929 30626 9475 3865 FPU / 6692 SSE2 5079 5083
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 22749 30012 9365 3833 FPU / 6631 SSE2 5022 5007
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 22584 29697 9298 3824 FPU / 6770 SSE2 4968 4968
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400) 22430 30019 9441 3848 FPU / 6681 SSE2 4819 4819
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 22675 30394 9164 3865 FPU / 6617 SSE2 4842 4833
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 22607 30124 9292 3834 FPU / 6521 SSE2 5078 5061
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 22546 29989 9281 3836 FPU / 6664 SSE2 4749 4751
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 36229 42961 17414 4616 FPU /
7947 SSE2
4795 4792
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 36238 42965 17409 4621 FPU /
7950 SSE2
4906 4904

Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

Both dual-core processor boards display CPU benchmark numbers vastly higher than the other motherboards in the test, but memory bandwidth is slightly disappointing. We'll see if this causes problems for the Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal in the rest of the benchmarks.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits: Points Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/533) 41
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/533) 41
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/533) 41
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 41
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 42
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/533) 43
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 41
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 41
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 45
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 40
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 39

The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal flexes some muscle here and edges past the rest of the pack. The dual-core processor appears to help here, given that both boards using the Pentium D finished first and second in this test. It's interesting to note that the 955X chipset knocks a second off SuperPi over that of the 945P based GA-8I945P Pro motherboard.

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Plenty of onboard features and extras
 Pg 3.  The Intel 955X Express chipset
 Pg 4.  Overclocking and GA-8I955X Dual Core BIOS Issues
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 7.  — Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, PCMark05
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, 3DMark05
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: Comanche 4, X2: The Threat
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: UT2003, UT2004
 Pg 12.  Benchmarks: Doom 3 and Conclusions

 
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