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Review: DFI LANPARTY 865PE

by Tarinder Sandhu on 29 January 2004, 00:00

Tags: DFI (TPE:2397)

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3DMark 2001SE, SS2, Comanche 4

3DMark 2001SE b330 should give us further insight into the DFI's potential. It's now run with a standard Hercules 3D Prophet 9800XT Classic card hogging the AGP port. Results will undoubtedly be higher than anything obtained previously with the long-standing 9800 Pro.



The DFI inches its way up to the magical 20,000-mark barrier but can't quite make the summit. Compare that with the Athlon 64 3200+ / Biostar K8VHA Pro combination that crashes through it with consummate ease. For a breakdown of the DFI's scores, head here. Decent bandwidth results. It's kind of scary that over 1.2GHz clock speed can put another 800 marks into this tuned DFI.



Serious Sam 2 continues the almost indistinguishable performance exhibited by both Intel boards. Let's not get complacent and remember that one is a tuned Canterwood and the other, the DFI LANPARTY 865PE, incorporates the supposedly inferior i865PE chipset. On the basis of results obtained thus far, there's very little justification for the pricier i875P.



Another case of where one has to call it at benchmark draw. There's literally nothing in it.