Test Setup
ASUS P5AD2 Premium: Intel P4 560, 2 x 512MB Corsair TWINX PC5400 Pro, ASUS AX600XT, 120GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm, Windows XP SP1, ATI Catalyst 4.8.
Intel D925XCV: Intel P4 560, 2 x 512MB Corsair TWINX PC5400 Pro, ASUS AX600XT, 120GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm, Windows XP SP1, ATI Catalyst 4.8.
Test software will be:
SiSoft Sandra 2004
Business Winstone 2004
Sysmark 2004
PiFast
CDex 1.51
TMPGEnc 2.521
Unreal Tournament 2003
Quake 3: Arena
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Call of Duty
The comparison motherboard will be the Intel D925XCV. Cooling for both motherboards was provided by the stock Intel cooler. The Corsair DDR2 modules will be run at stock PC5400 with 4-4-4-12 memory timings. All benchmarks were run three times with the average score displayed, with the exception of SiSoft Sandra, which was also ran three times, but the first two scores dropped.
SiSoft Sandra 2004
Although a synthetic benchmark, it's a popular one, freely available if you wish to make comparison benchmarks. We will be testing the CPU, MMX, and memory speeds, using the 32-bit 2004 version.
CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
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Whetstone iSSE2
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Dhrystone ALU
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
7493
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9605
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| Intel D925XCV |
7321
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9412
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CPU Multimedia Benchmark
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Integer iSSE2
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Floating-Point iSSE2
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
25559
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34180
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| Intel D925XCV |
22984
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30087
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Memory Benchmark
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Int Buffered iSSE2
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Float Buffered iSSE2
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
4805
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4800
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| Intel D925XCV |
4756
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4753
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While the Intel branded board puts out some good numbers, the ASUS P5AD2 Premium cleans house across the board. The memory benchmark is fairly close, but not so much in the multimedia and arithmetic tests.
ZD Business Winstone 2004
The ZD Winstone suite is a script that runs a series of actions and calculates a final score that measures a PC's overall performance.
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Score (Higher is better)
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
23.1
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| Intel D925XCV |
22.4
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The results are quite close here, with neither board clearly dominating the other. The ASUS outperforms the Intel board by just under one point. I should point out that compared with what we've seen with the Athlon 64, the Pentium 4 still has a little catching up to do.
Sysmark 2004 Office Productivity
Sysmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It uses a number of real-world applications and runs them through a series of tests. We tested with the office, content creation and web benchmarks.
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Score (Higher is better)
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
186
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| Intel D925XCV |
185
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Sysmark 2004 Content Creation
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Score (Higher is better)
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
213
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| Intel D925XCV |
209
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WebMark 2004
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Score (Higher is better)
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| ASUS P5AD2 |
146
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| Intel D925XCV |
139
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Mirroring what we've seen with all the synthetic tests, the ASUS keeps ahead of the Intel board in all the BAPCo benchmarks. Let's see how they compare in real-world tests.
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