ScienceMark 2.0, Pifast, MP3
On to the benchmarks.
In the same ballpark as ASUS' best Canterwood board. Notice just how much more memory bandwidth ScienceMark 2.0 attributes to the i875P chipset over ATI's Radeon 9100 IGP.
Memory latency is reckoned to be 76ns at 3.4GHz clockspeed. That's impressive enough for an Intel board but both Canterwoods' results pale into mediocrity when compared with AMD's on-die memory controller. There's always something to be said for getting rid of the traditional CPU - Northbridge - RAM model.
Nothing much to separate DFI and ASUS' boards in Pifast. Readers should not be surprised at the lack of result deviation. Both companies know how to manufacture and tweak boards based on any chipset. Stock performance, therefore, should not be an influencing factor.
The graph says it all. Nothing to choose between rival Canterwood boards.
