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Review: abit AW9D Max

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 11 October 2006, 08:59

Tags: Abit AW9D Max, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), abit

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System Setup and Notes

We compare the abit AW9D Max to the ASUS P5W64 WS Pro, with Core 2 Extreme X6800, 2GiB of Corsair at PC2-6400 speeds, and a Radeon X1900 XTX at the graphics helm. The specifics are as follows.

Hardware

System abit AW9D Max System ASUS P5W64 WS Pro System
Processor Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775)
Motherboard abit AW9D Max ASUS P5W64 WS Pro
Memory 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500
Memory timings and speed 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400)
Graphics card(s) ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MiB
Disk drive(s) Maxtor 300GB SATA (6V300FO)
BIOS revision 1.2 (15/09/06) 0116 (01/08/06)
Mainboard software Intel Inf Update 8.0.0.1009
Graphics driver CATALYST 6.8
Operating System Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit

Software

We ran the mainboards through our usual array of benchmarks.
2D Benchmarks ScienceMark Memory Bandwidth
ScienceMark Memory Latency
HEXUS Pifast calculation to 10M places
HEXUS Cryptography
Realstorm Raytracing 2004
KribiBench v1.1
HEXUS WAV encoding
HEXUS DivX encoding
Cinebench 2003 v9.5

3D Benchmarks Far Cry v1.33
Quake 4 v1.04
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Futuremark 3DMark05 b1.2.0

Notes

The usual bits apply here. We ran each benchmark a trio of times, discarding the outer results and reporting the middle one. If any of the three results looked erroneous, we threw all three away until we could collect three within a margin of statistical error. Any major attempts needed to get three reliable results we let you know about, of course. Apart from that, things are as noted on the graphs and in the graph commentary. Want to know more? Hit up the HEXUS.community.