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Albatron Mars PX915SLI Intel 915PL SLI Motherboard Review
Albatron Mars PX915SLI Intel 915PL SLI Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Albatron is one of the more innovative motherboard manufacturers, and its team of engineers has actually figured out a way of running SLI on the budget Intel 915PL chipset!
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External Mfg. Website: Albatron Oct 05 2005   C. Sun  
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A look at the Albatron BIOS

In the Advanced Chipset Features we find the usual memory timing adjustments like CAS Latency, RAS to CAS Delay and RAS Precharge.

Things are more fun in the Frequency/Voltage Control section, both PCI and PCI Express speeds are adjustable but those are best left alone. Memory frequency can be adjusted to run at 333 or 400 MHz and FSB can be tuned between 200-400 MHz in 1 MHz increments. Memory, Northbridge and CPU voltage can be adjusted to a maximum of 0.15V above stock values.

PCStats Test System Specs:
processor:

intel pentium d 840
intel pentium 4 540

clock speed:

16 x 200 mhz = 3.2 ghz
16 x 200 mhz = 3.2 ghz

motherboards:

foxconn 955x7aa-8ekrs2 (955x)
foxconn 945p7aa-8ekrs2 (945p)
gigabyte ga-8n-sli royal (nf4-sli)
msi p4n diamond (nf4 sli)
albatron px915sli (915pl)*

videocard:

msi nx7800gtx-vt2d256e
msi nx6600gt-vtd128e*

memory:

2x 512mb crucial ballistix pc5300 ddr2

hard drive: 74gb western digital raptor sata
cdrom: aopen combo 52x
heatsink: thermaltake jungle 512
powersupply: akasa powerplus ak-p550ff psi
software setup

windowsxp
intel inf 7.2.1.1003
forceware 7.13
forceware 78.01
forceware 71.80g*

workstation benchmarks

sysmark 2004
business winstone 2004
content creation 2004
super pi
sisoft sandra 2005
pcmark04
3dmark2001se
3dmark05
aquamark3
comanche 4
x2: the threat
ut2003
ut2004
doom 3

* the latest albatron drivers for the px915sli do not yet support geforce 7800gtx class videocards, so we used two geforce 6600gt's to illustrate SLI performance.

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Contents of Article: Albatron Mars PX915SLI
 Pg 1.  Albatron Mars PX915SLI Intel 915PL SLI Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Intel SLI on the 915PL Chipset
 Pg 3.  — A look at the Albatron BIOS
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Sandra 2005, SuperPI
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, PCMark05
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, 3DMark05
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: Comanche 4, X2: The Threat
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: UT2003, UT2004
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: Doom 3 Conclusions

 
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