KribiBench, Realstorm, XviD, HDTach
3.4GHz of Northwood power can't do much to dent the lead held by AMD's Athlon 64 Model 3400+. As expected, ASUS' P4R800-V Deluxe lags a little behind the more illustrious Canterwood board.
The performance delta between the two S478 boards hovers at around the 10% mark. That's due to lower memory bandwidth and higher latency. Let's not forget that the P4C800-E hits the wallet scales at £130+, the P4R800-V at £75. Decent enough performance if viewed from that context.
You'll know why it's slower than the P4C800-E Deluxe at media encoding.
ATI's IXP150 Southbridge only caters for the ATA100 standard. That doesn't really matter. How many current PATA drives burst at above the standard's theoretical limit, anyway?. PATA performance is excellent, as shown by HDTach 2.61. Low CPU utilisation rate and a smooth STR graph is what we like to see. A Western Digital 160JB drive was the test subject.
More HDTach 2.61 goodness from a SATA point of view. This time, it's WD's nippy 36GB Raptor being probed. The low burst rate is of some concern. It's not peculiar to the drive, which has benchmaked at ~100mbps on other boards.
