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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.
 78% Rating:   
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External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Aug 09 2005   M. Dowler  
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Benchmarks: PCMark04, PCMark05

PCMark04 Source: FutureMark

PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including whole applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while still giving accurate results.

PCMark04:
Overall Points Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/533) 5085
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/533) 5422
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/533) 5204
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 5112
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 5114
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/533) 5139
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 5173
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 5207
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 4885
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 6472
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 6760
CPU Points Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/533) 4956
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/533) 5284
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/533) 5034
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 4978
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 4929
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/533) 4759
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 4955
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 5011
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 4861
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 6412
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 6486
Memory Points Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/533) 5329
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/533) 5712
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/533) 5370
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 5076
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 5023
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/533) 4679
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 5197
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 5431
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 4329
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 4827
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 5344
HDD Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 7015
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 6061
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 7055
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 7083

The high CPU score pushes the Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal to overall victory in this benchmark, though this fact is somewhat let down by mediocre memory bandwidth numbers like we saw in Sandra.

PCMark05 Source: FutureMark

The latest version of the popular PCMark series, PCMark05 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including whole applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while still giving accurate results.

PCMark05:
Overall Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 5141
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 5732
CPU Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 5279
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 5309
Memory Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 3932
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 4201
Graphics Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 3566
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 5412
HDD Points Ranking
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 7019
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400) 7047

We've only had time to test a couple of motherboards with PCMarks newest 2005 version of its benchmark. The 955X Express chipset seems to have a clear cut performance advantage over the 945P here. We'll see if our 3D gaming benchmarks reflect this.

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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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