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VIA's PT880 Pro and PT894 Core Logic Preview

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 31 January 2005, 00:00

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), VIA Technologies (TPE:2388)

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

Mainboards

VIA VT8369A, VIA PT880 Pro, LGA775, PEG16X + AGP8X, DDR
VIA VT5873B, VIA PT894, LGA775, PEG16X, DDR
ASUS P5AD2-E Premium, Intel i925XE, LGA775, PEG16X, DDR2

Processors

Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, 3.46GHz, 512kB L2 + 2MB L3, LGA775

Graphics Cards

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, NV45 + BR2, 256MB, PEG16X

Memory

2 x 512MB Micron DDR2-533, Micron, DDR2-533, 4-4-4-10
2 x 512MB OCZ Platinum rev2 PC3200, Samsung TCCD, DDR400, 2-2-2-5

Hard Disks

Western Digital Raptor, 36.6GB, SATA

Software

Windows XP Professional w/ SP2
Intel 6.0.0.1014 chipset drivers
VIA Hyperion 4.5x BETA platform driver NVIDIA Detonator 66.93
DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime

HEXUS Pifast
Sciencemark 2.0
KribiBench v1.1
LAME 3.92MMX encoding U2's Pop album at 192CBR
Realstorm 2004 Raytracing Benchmark

Notes

Performance will be a swift run through with a few of our usual testing tools. Annoyingly, graphical benchmarks are omitted due to overall system instability with the reference platforms. Look out for a full performance evaluation when retail examples appear.