Review: Gigabyte's GA-8AENXP-D Mainboard

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 17 April 2005, 00:00

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabcd

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware and Software

Test Platforms

Gigabyte GA-8AENXP-D System ASUS P5AD2-E System
Processor(s) Intel Pentium 4 570J
Mainboard Gigabyte GA-8AENXP-D System ASUS P5AD2-E
Memory 2 x 512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667
3.0-3-3-10 @ 533MHz
BIOS Version F3 - 1st February 2005 1002.005 - 22nd October 2004
Disk Drive 74GB Western Digital Raptor
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra - PEG16X - 71.20 ForceWare
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2
Mainboard Software Intel INF Update Utility 6.3.0.1007

Benchmark Software

HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
Cinebench 2003
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.96
PicColor 32-bit v4.0
Kribibench v1.1.9

FutureMark's 3DMark05

Notes

The GA-8AENXP-D gets to take on the other premium 925XE-based board on the market, ASUS's P5AD2-E Premium, using our latest suite of system tests.