Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 965: The Last of a Dying Breed
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 22, 2006 1:51 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
The Test
We've started upgrading bits and pieces of our CPU test bed, so the numbers in this review are not comparable to those in previous reviews. Our previous 120GB 7200.7 Seagate PATA hard drive has been replaced with a 300GB 7200.9 Seagate SATA drive. And we're using a single Radeon X1900 XTX in our testbeds as well.
While the Intel motherboard that we've been using remains the same (albeit with a BIOS update to recognize the EE 965 processor), we've switched to the ASUS A8N32-SLI based on the nForce4 SLI x16 chipset for the AMD processors.
We've started upgrading bits and pieces of our CPU test bed, so the numbers in this review are not comparable to those in previous reviews. Our previous 120GB 7200.7 Seagate PATA hard drive has been replaced with a 300GB 7200.9 Seagate SATA drive. And we're using a single Radeon X1900 XTX in our testbeds as well.
While the Intel motherboard that we've been using remains the same (albeit with a BIOS update to recognize the EE 965 processor), we've switched to the ASUS A8N32-SLI based on the nForce4 SLI x16 chipset for the AMD processors.
| CPU: | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6GHz/1MBx2) Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (3.73GHz/2MBx2) Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 (3.46GHz/2MBx2) |
| Motherboard: | ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Intel BadAxe 975X |
| Chipset: | NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x16 Intel 975X |
| Chipset Drivers: | nForce4 x16 6.85 Intel 7.2.2.1006 |
| Hard Disk: | Seagate 7200.9 300GB SATA |
| Memory: | OCZ PC3500 DDR 2-2-2-7 DDR2-667 4-4-4-15 |
| Video Card: | ATI Radeon X1900 XTX |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 6.3 |
| Desktop Resolution: | 1280 x 1024 - 32-bit @ 60Hz |
| OS: | Windows XP Professional SP2 |
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allometry - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - link
You know, I spell check the damn thing and forget to copy and paste it back in.Sorry for the mis-sp3lings. I r smart.