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EVGA P55 FTW Motherboard Review
Author: Will West
Published: Monday, November 23, 2009
Benchmarks Synthetic
System as it was tested
EVGA P55 FTW Intel P55 Chipset
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Cooler Master V10 Heatsink
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 4GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
GTX 285 PCI Express
WD Black 640GB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair 800w power supply
Window 7 64 Bit Edition
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Cooler Master V10 Heatsink
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 4GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
GTX 285 PCI Express
WD Black 640GB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair 800w power supply
Window 7 64 Bit Edition
Reference System
Foxconn Flaming Blade Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x OCZ 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
Asus 4850 PCI Express
Seagate 7200.11 1TB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
BFG Tech 800w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x OCZ 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
Asus 4850 PCI Express
Seagate 7200.11 1TB SerialATA 7200RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
BFG Tech 800w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Reference System
EVGA X58 LE Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG 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.
As you can imagine the Core i5 750 is not as fast as the Core i7 920 processors and the synthetic benchmarks show just how much. The biggest and most understandable drop is with Memory Bandwidth. Going from triple channel to dual channel does make a difference in our Sandra tests, however in the real world this might not be the case.
As you can imagine the Core i5 750 is not as fast as the Core i7 920 processors and the synthetic benchmarks show just how much. The biggest and most understandable drop is with Memory Bandwidth. Going from triple channel to dual channel does make a difference in our Sandra tests, however in the real world this might not be the case.
