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
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400)	36238	42965	17409	4621 FPU / 7950 SSE2	4906	4904
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

Both dual-core processor boards display CPU benchmark numbers vastly higher than the other motherboards in the test, but memory bandwidth is slightly disappointing. We'll see if this causes problems for the Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal in the rest of the benchmarks.

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.

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
Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal (955X 200/400)	39

The Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal flexes some muscle here and edges past the rest of the pack. The dual-core processor appears to help here, given that both boards using the Pentium D finished first and second in this test. It's interesting to note that the 955X chipset knocks a second off SuperPi over that of the 945P based GA-8I945P Pro motherboard.