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Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Intel P965 Express Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Intel P965 Express Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The GA-965P-DS3 is made for Intel's remarkably proficient Core 2 Duo processor series, and for the purposes of this review PCSTATS will be testing it with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU - the sweetheart of the bunch.
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Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra

Office Productivity Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 29.1
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 30.3
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 29.6
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 30.4
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840) 26.1
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840) 25.2
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840) 26.5
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840) 26.1
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840) 25.8
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 32.3
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 31.9
Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 42
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 41.8
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 41.2
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 41.7
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840) 33.2
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840) 32.6
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840) 33.3
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840) 33
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840) 34.2
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 43
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 43.4

The Winstone 2004 Office Productivity tests show results which are much closer than what we witnessed in SYSMark 2004. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 and P965 Express combination puts forth a very capable computing platform that is hard to beat, even for AMD's top of the line chips. Remember what you're seeing here, and that the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard retails for only $150 CDN! Yikes!

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
Motherboard Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA (K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) 48799 53396 21837 8172 FPU / 10620 SSE2 6688 6607
Albatron KM51PV-AM2 (GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) 49031 53788 22011 8263 FPU / 10700 SSE2 6737 6656
MSI K9N SLI Platinum (NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 48963 53456 22014 8266 FPU / 10718 SSE2 6694 6612
Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) 49006 53359 22011 8263 FPU / 10701 SSE2 6646 6565
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667 PD 840) 35956 42846 17351 4601 FPU / 7913 SSE2 5097 5097
Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 (955X 200/667 PD 840) 36082 42781 17356 4594 FPU / 7923 SSE2 5103 5106
Foxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 (945P 200/667 PD 840) 35865 42555 17272 4582 FPU / 7880 SSE2 5036 5040
MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI 200/800 PD 840) 36212 42926 17400 4618 FPU / 7952 SSE2 5015 5020
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 PD 840) 36562 43384 17621 4668 FPU / 8036 SSE2 5183 5182
Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 62807 71205 28923 7258 FPU / 10712 SSE2 5651 5599
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (P965 200/800 Core 2 Duo) 63606 71990 29230 7361 FPU / 10793 SSE2 5593 5528

Units:

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

SiSoft Sandra shows off the power of the Core 2 Duo E6600 processor well. The Multimedia and CPU benchmark results are way higher than anything else we've ever seen prior to this... the socket AM2 Athlon64 based systems are left behind by a fair margin. Memory bandwidth numbers are high for the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, but not as good as with the socket AM2 Athlon64, that's certainly interesting.

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Intel P965 Express Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Intel P965 Express and ICH8 Chipsets
 Pg 3.  The Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard Highlights
 Pg 4.  Overclocking the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard
 Pg 5.  Prelude to Benchmarks / Sysmark 2004
 Pg 6.  — Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: Super Pi, PCMark05
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: 3DMark06, FarCry
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: X3: Reunion, Doom 3, Quake 4
 Pg 11.  Out of the Darkness Emerges Intel

 
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