. ASUS P5K3 Deluxe (Intel P35) mainboard review - SISOFT SANDRA XI
Bluetooth 26 May 2007

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Sandra XI

In the tests to follow, the Gigabyte P35-DQ6 board is run with 2GB of Corsair DDR2 running at CAS 5, 5-5-18 DDR2-800 mode while the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA will run in DDR mode with 1GB of Corsair memory at CAS 2, 2-2-5, 1T cmd and in DDR2 mode, it is run with the same pair of DDR2 modules (2GB) running at CAS 3, 3-3-8, 1T cmd DDR2-533. The ECS PN2 SLI2+ runs at 266.7 which is just exactly at the same clk speed as the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6. ASUS on the other hand has its 0505 bios tuned to 267.3MHz, that is a big higher than the rest of the boards in comparison. Will it give it a better edge during the benchmarks.

The Gigabyte P5K3 Deluxe uses a pair of Kingston DDR3-1333 modules. As the chipset does not support running async setting of CPU=266 and RAM at 667 (DDR3-1333), we have to run it at DDR3-1066. The ASUS P5K Deluxe runs with DDR2-1066 at CAS 5, 7-7-18 whereas the ASUS P5K3 Deluxe runs at DDR3-1066 at CAS 7-7-7-20 (SPD)

From the chart below, we can see that the running at DDR3-1066 gives no advantage in bandwidth as it is running in ASYnc DDR3-1066. In fact, the bandwidth scores might be hampered by it CAS 7 rating. It only score 5790. On the other hand, the P5K Deluxe which we paired up with 2GB runing at DDR2-1066, CAS 5, 7-7-18 did better.

As we mentioned earlier, DDR3-1333 is better paired off with CPU running at 333MHz (1333FSB), would that be the case ? We will look at it at the end of the review.

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