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DFI BloodIron G41-T33 Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Friday, October 09, 2009
Benchmarks Synthetic
On to the benchmarks 
System as it was tested
DFI LanParty BloodIron G41-T33 Intel G41 Chipset
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz) 2 x 4MB L2 Cache 1066MHz FSB (Quad-Core)
2x G.Skill F3-12800CL7D-4GBHZ DDR3 (7-7-7-18) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX850W 850w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz) 2 x 4MB L2 Cache 1066MHz FSB (Quad-Core)
2x G.Skill F3-12800CL7D-4GBHZ DDR3 (7-7-7-18) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX850W 850w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Reference system
DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5
AMD Phenom II 720 X3 Black Edition Tri Core (2.8Ghz) 6MB L3 Cache
Thermolab Baram
2x G.Skill F3-12800CL7D-4GBHZ DDR3 (7-7-7-18) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
AMD Phenom II 720 X3 Black Edition Tri Core (2.8Ghz) 6MB L3 Cache
Thermolab Baram
2x G.Skill F3-12800CL7D-4GBHZ DDR3 (7-7-7-18) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed; these were recorded using Sandra Professional Business Version 2009.1.15.42
Synthetic Conclusion
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions.
We don't normally match up AMD and Intel processors in the same review but in this case we felt the performance cross section was pretty even. On one hand you have a triple core Phenom and in the other a Core 2 Quad with a lower core speed. Most everything else is the same. The only downfall is memory performance which we suspect is due to the lower memory clock.
We don't normally match up AMD and Intel processors in the same review but in this case we felt the performance cross section was pretty even. On one hand you have a triple core Phenom and in the other a Core 2 Quad with a lower core speed. Most everything else is the same. The only downfall is memory performance which we suspect is due to the lower memory clock.
