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DFI LanParty Pro875 (Canterwood) Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Benchmarks - Synthetic

The system as it was tested

DFI LanParty Pro875 i875P (Canterwood)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Reference System

Abit IS7 i865PE (Springdale) - GAT not enabled
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
Stock Intel "Hybrid" Heatsink (copper core, radial design) /w AVC 5000rpm fan
2x Corsair XMS3502 v1.1 DDR434 256megs
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB ATA/100 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Wcpuid

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 where recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2003.3.9.44

Cachemem

Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.

It is pretty clear from the results that PAT does indeed increase memory bandwidth with a huge increase in the Read speed according to Cachemem. However the slightly lower FSB does hinder the general synthetic CPU and Multimedia scores.

Real world benchmarks are next.