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EVGA X58 SLI LE Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, July 06, 2009
Benchmarks Synthetic
It should also be noted that we could not disable the turbo mode in the BIOS. It could physically be turned off but if you went back to the advanced settings screen it was enabled once again. Kicking down the multiplier would show 19x but we could not actually settle on the default 20x.
With that said all of our benchmarks were recorded with turbo mode enabled and XMP memory profile active.
With that said all of our benchmarks were recorded with turbo mode enabled and XMP memory profile active.
System as it was tested
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
Reference system
LanParty Jr X58-T3H6 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
Reference System
Foxconn Quantum Force BloodRage X58 Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler – Thermalright XWB-01 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 – Thermalright XWB-01 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.
You can clearly see that with the XMP profile enabled the memory performance had been greatly increased. As this is the first motherboard we have tested that actually enabled the XMP properly we are more than pleased to see the results.
You can clearly see that with the XMP profile enabled the memory performance had been greatly increased. As this is the first motherboard we have tested that actually enabled the XMP properly we are more than pleased to see the results.
