Intel 845 DDR Motherboard Roundup - December 2001

Synthetic Memory Performance SiSoft Sandra 2001 - STREAM FP Luckystar P4A845D DFI NB70-SC Chaintech 9BJD0 ECS P4IBAD Soltek SL-85DR-C Soyo P4I Fire Dragon MSI 845 Ultra FIC VC15 ABIT BD7-RAID AOpen AX4B Pro Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR Intel D845BG 1171 1161 1160 1155 1149 1148 1146 1141 1138 1137 1135 1133 | 0 | 234 | 468 | 703 | 937 | 1171 | 1405

The memory performance of all of the solutions varies by approximately 3% which gives us an indication that we may see a very close performance comparison between all of the contenders.

Synthetic Memory Performance Cachemem - Latency (lower is better) Intel D845BG Chaintech 9BJD0 DFI NB70-SC ECS P4IBAD Soltek SL-85DR-C Soyo P4I Fire Dragon FIC VC15 Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR Luckystar P4A845D MSI 845 Ultra ABIT BD7-RAID AOpen AX4B Pro 361 370 370 370 370 370 371 371 371 371 372 372 | 0 | 74 | 149 | 223 | 298 | 372 | 446

Interestingly enough all of the motherboards show almost the same latency figures except the Intel board which is a good 9 cycles lower than the other contenders. While this probably won't translate into a tangible performance improvement, it's clear which manufacturer has the most experience with the platform.