Review: ECS PF4 Extreme

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 11 August 2004, 00:00

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

Motherboards

ECS PF4 Extreme, Intel i915P, LGA775. PEG16X, DDR-II
ABIT AG8, Intel i915P, LGA775, PEG16X, DDR-I
Intel D925XCV Desktop Board, Intel i925X, LGA775, PEG16X, DDR-II

Processors

Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz, LGA775

Graphics Cards

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, PCI Express 16x

Memory

1GB Micron DDR-II PC2-4300 - 4-4-4-12 - Intel D925XCV
512MB Corsair XMS3200LLPT DDR-I PC-3200 - 2-3-2-6 - PF4 and AG8

Hard Disks

1 x 36.6GB Western Digital Raptor SATA

Software

Windows XP Professional w/ SP1
Intel Application Accelerator 4.0.0.6211 (LGA775 boards)
Intel 6.0.0.1014 chipset drivers (LGA775 boards)
NVIDIA Detonator 61.34
DirectX 9.0b End User Runtime

HEXUS Pifast
Sciencemark 2.0
KribiBench v1.1
LAME 3.92MMX encoding U2's Pop album at 192CBR
Realstorm Raytracing Benchmark
3DMark 2001SE
3DMark03
Painkiller
HDTach 3.0.0

Notes

The PF4 Extreme goes up against ABIT AG8, a similarly priced mainboard that uses Grantsdale, DDR-I and PEG16X for graphics. Throwing Intel's D925XCV in the mix means comparisons can be made between Grantsdale and Alderwood (PF4 and D925XCV) and DDR-I and DDR-II (AG8 and PF4).

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