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ASUS P5AD2-E Premium
[Abstract]
ThoughtsASUS has effectively made its i925X-based P5AD2 Premium board redundant with the newer P5AD2-E Premium. The latter carries all the feature nicities of the former but adds in support for...
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System setup and notes Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own. - ASUS P5AD2-E Premium Intel i925XE LGA775 motherboard
- Intel reference D925XECV2 LGA775 motherboard
- EPoX 8RDA3+ K8T800 Pro S939 motherboard
Other components
- Intel Pentium 4 570J CPU (3.8GHz Prescott, LGA775)
- AMD Athlon 64 Model 3800+ CPU (2.4GHz, S939. 512kb L2 cache)
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, AGP
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, PCI Express
- 2 x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000, run at 2-2-2-5 for AMD
- 2 x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC5300 DDR2 run at 3-4-4-8 for both Intel boards
- Pioneer 105 DVD-RW
- Western Digital 160GB (WD1600) 8MB cache hard drive
- 2 x Western Digital 74GB Raptor SATA hard drives
- Dell P991 19" monitor
Software
- Windows XP Professional SP2
- DirectX 9.0c runtime
- Intel 6.0.1.1006 chipset drivers
- Intel Application Accelerator for ICH6
- VIA Hyperion 4.53 driver set
- NVIDIA ForceWare 61.76 driver set
- Pifast v4.1 to 10m places
- Lame v3.92 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album (611MB)
- XviD encoding test
- KribiBench 1.19
- ScienceMark 2.0
- Realstorm Raytracing benchmark 320x180x32
- 3DMark 2001SE v330
- UT2003 Retail (Build 2225)
- Comanche 4 benchmark
- Quake 3 v1.30 HQ
Notes
ASUS has been known in the past to run inflated FSB clocks in order to gain an artificial performance advantage over rivals' boards. That trend continues with the 925XE incarnation. A regular 3.8GHz Pentium 4 570J CPU clocked in at a 'default' 3842.7MHz. Please bear this inflated speed in mind when comparing performance to an Intel reference 925XE board. I've also added in numbers from an AMD Athlon 64 3800+/VIA K8T800 Pro as a reference guide.
No other problems to report during installation and testing.
Overclocking
Starting off at a default 266MHz FSB already puts a strain on potential overclocking performance. I was able to run the P5AD2-E Premium at a rock-solid 292MHz FSB. That's impressive in light of no active board cooling. I'm sure that better-directed cooling and tinkering would allow the average enthusiast to break through the 300MHz FSB barrier without too much difficulty. Impressive stuff from ASUS.
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