TriGem KLOSS KL-I915A

System Setup and Notes

System Setup

Mainboards
TriGem KLOSS KL-I915A, Intel i915G, LGA775, PEG16X
Shuttle FB77, Intel i875P, LGA775, AGP8X, DDR
DFI LanParty 875P-T, Intel i875P, LGA775, AGP8X, DDR

Processors
Intel Pentium 4 560, 3.6GHz, 1MB L2, LGA775

Graphics Cards
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, NV43, 128MB, PEG16X
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, NV43 + BR2, 128MB, AGP8X

Memory
2 x 512MB OCZ Platinum rev2 PC3200, Samsung TCCD, DDR400, 2-2-2-5
2 x 512MB OCZ Platinum rev2 PC3200, Samsung TCCD, DDR400, 2.5-4-4-8

Hard Disks
Western Digital Raptor, 36.6GB, SATA

Software

Windows XP Professional w/ SP2
Intel 6.0.0.1014 chipset drivers
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
3DMark 2001SE
3DMark03

Notes

I recently reviewed Shuttle's SB77G5 XPC (look out for that review soon if it hasn't been activated already, but at the time of writing it's still unpublished) and it's a fine XPC for LGA775 socket processors up to 3.6GHz, so it made for a fine comparison platform, the KLOSS toting i915 and DDR memory. Being PCI Express based, the KLOSS uses the native PCI Express version of GeForce 6600 GT, clocked down to 500/900 to match the AGP version. So it's a basic comparison between i915G/PEG16X and i875P/AGP8X at the heart of things, Pentium 4 560 powering both systems.

Note the memory run at 2.5-4-4-8 timings on the KLOSS, putting it at a slight disadvantage.