Review: Albatron PX875P Pro

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 22 June 2004, 00:00

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Albatron (5386.TWO)

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System Setup

Hardware

  • Albatron PX875P Pro, Socket 478, Intel i875P, Pentium 4, 10/02/2004 BIOS
  • ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe, Socket 478, SiS655TX, Pentium4
  • DFI LANPARTY i865PE, Socket 478, Intel i865PE, Pentium 4, 19/12/2003 BIOS
  • ASUS K8V Deluxe, Socket 754, VIA K8T800 Athlon 64, 1005.011 BIOS
  • AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+, 1MB L2, 10 x 200MHz
  • Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz, 512KB L2, 16 x 200MHz
  • Western Digital WD360 Raptor, SATA, 36.2GB (Albatron, ASUS K8V, ASUS P4S800D-E)
  • IBM 120GXP, PATA, 40GB (DFI)
  • ATI Radeon 9800XT (412/730)

Software

  • Windows XP Professional w/SP1
  • ATI CATALYST 4.1 and Control Panel
  • SiS AGP driver 1.17, SiS IDE driver 2.04a, SiS RAID driver 1.05 (ASUS P4S800D-E)
  • VIA Hyperion 4.51v (ASUS K8V)
  • Intel 5.02.1002 chipset drivers (Albatron, DFI)
  • HEXUS Pifast v41
  • Simplisoft HDTach 2.61
  • Kribi Bench 1.19
  • Sciencemark 2.0
  • 3DMark 2001SE v330
  • Quake3 v1.30 HQ (four demo)
  • LAME 3.92MMX MP3 Encoding(192CBR, U2's Pop album)
  • Realstorm Ray Tracing
  • X2: The Threat - Rolling Demo

The Albatron, powered by i875P (Canterwood) goes up against SiS655TX (dual-channel P4), i865PE+PAT (Springdale-PE) and my K8V reference box. The Albatron had PAT enabled throughout, bear that in mind when comparing benchmark results.

CPU frequency was 3222.4MHz (201.4MHz x 16 according to CPU-Z), bear that in mind too when comparing benchmark results that are largely CPU limited.

Memory latencies are 2-2-2-6 for all boards. As usual, all tests were performed three times with the upper and lower results discarded, leaving the median result for reporting. If any of the test results deviated from any of the others by more than 2%, the entire result block is discarded and a new triplet of scores obtained from scratch.





Ignore the 3:2, I was running at 300MHz front side bus at the time. 2-2-2-6 were indeed the benchmarked latencies at all times.