Intel 845 DDR Motherboard Roundup - December 2001

Real-world Performance

Overall Performance Content Creation Winstone 2002 ECS P4IBAD DFI NB70-SC Soltek SL-85DR-C Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR Chaintech 9BJD0 Soyo P4I Fire Dragon Luckystar P4A845D AOpen AX4B Pro ABIT BD7-RAID FIC VC15 MSI 845 Ultra Intel D845BG 32.7 32.6 32.6 32.6 32.5 32.5 32.3 32.3 32.2 32 32 31.1 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 26 | 33 | 39

With the exception of the Intel board, all of the contenders perform within 1 Winstone point of each other which is impossible to notice in a real world situation. Again we're looking at a very mature set of motherboards that all perform alike.

Gaming Performance Return to Castle Wolfenstein (1024 x 768 x 32 - High Quality) Chaintech 9BJD0 DFI NB70-SC ECS P4IBAD MSI 845 Ultra Soyo P4I Fire Dragon Soltek SL-85DR-C Luckystar P4A845D ABIT BD7-RAID AOpen AX4B Pro FIC VC15 Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR Intel D845BG 141.4 141.1 140 139.9 139.8 139.3 138.7 138.7 138.4 138.3 138.1 134 | 0 | 28 | 57 | 85 | 113 | 141 | 170

Once again, other than the Intel D845BG the rest of the motherboards perform within 4 fps one another. It's clear that Intel is sacrificing a bit of memory performance in favor of stability with the D845BG which isn't out of the ordinary for them.