System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.- ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Intel i925XE LGA775 motherboard
- Intel reference D925XECV2 LGA775 motherboard
- EPoX 8RDA3+ K8T800 Pro S939 motherboard
Other components
Software
- Windows XP Professional
ASUS has been known in the past to run inflated FSB clocks in order to gain an artificial performance advantage over rivals' boards. That trend continues with the 925XE incarnation. A regular 3.8GHz Pentium 4 570J CPU clocked in at a 'default' 3842.7MHz. Please bear this inflated speed in mind when comparing performance to an Intel reference 925XE board. I've also added in numbers from an AMD Athlon 64 3800+/VIA K8T800 Pro as a reference guide.
No other problems to report during installation and testing.
Overclocking
Starting off at a default 266MHz FSB already puts a strain on potential overclocking performance. I was able to run the P5AD2-E Premium at a rock-solid 292MHz FSB. That's impressive in light of no active board cooling. I'm sure that better-directed cooling and tinkering would allow the average enthusiast to break through the 300MHz FSB barrier without too much difficulty. Impressive stuff from ASUS.
