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Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro Intel 945P Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro Intel 945P Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Two PCI Express x1 slots and three conventional PCI slots take care of further peripheral expansion needs, and the GA-8I945P Pro can support up to six IDE and four SATA II devices.
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External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Aug 08 2005   M. Dowler  
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Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Processors Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400) 22543 30072 9417 3850 FPU / 6647 SSE2 5008 5025
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (925X 200/400) 24239 32071 10011 4082 FPU / 7070 SSE2 5374 5359
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (915P 200/400) 22929 30626 9475 3865 FPU / 6692 SSE2 5079 5083
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 22749 30012 9365 3833 FPU / 6631 SSE2 5022 5007
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 22584 29697 9298 3824 FPU / 6770 SSE2 4968 4968
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400) 22430 30019 9441 3848 FPU / 6681 SSE2 4819 4819
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 22675 30394 9164 3865 FPU / 6617 SSE2 4842 4833
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 22607 30124 9292 3834 FPU / 6521 SSE2 5078 5061
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 22546 29989 9281 3836 FPU / 6664 SSE2 4749 4751
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 36229 42961 17414 4616 FPU /
7947 SSE2
4795 4792

Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

Again the dual-core Pentium D processor lets the Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro put up awesome numbers on the CPU and multimedia sections of this benchmark. The memory bandwidth numbers are rather disappointing though. We'll see if this hurts the board on our 3D benchmarks in a moment.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations. Lower scores are better.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits: Points Ranking
Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/533) 41
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/533) 41
MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/533) 41
DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) 41
ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) 42
VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/533) 43
AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) 41
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) 41
ECS RS400-A (RS400 200/400) 45
Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro (945P 200/400) 40

The Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro pulls out ahead in this benchmark, but just slightly. This suggests that the dual-core processor is probably not splitting the load evenly, but rather one core is working on the benchmark while the other takes care of background system tasks. This combination results in a slightly faster time than the test systems featuring the 3.2GHz P4 540, which is essentially identical to the two Prescott cores making up the Pentium D 840 chip. Again it's heartening to see that a mainstream motherboard can use the high-end Pentium D chip to good effect.

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro Intel 945P Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Intel 945P/G desktop chipset
 Pg 3.  Overclocking the Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 6.  — Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05, Comanche 4
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3 & Conclusions

 
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