Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955

General Performance:

Summary:

Memory performance was dominated by the Intel CPUs and the i975X board showed huge memory performance gains over the i955X based Gigabyte board with the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz. A rather impressive 9% increase in memory bandwidth - we'll see how this bodes in our range of testing scenarios.

DVD Shrink is multi-threaded, meaning that the Pentium 4's outperformed their Athlon 64-based single core competitors. The Pentium Extreme Edition 955 came close to beating the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, but the latter held on to win this benchmark by four seconds. Both the i955X and i975X chipsets recorded the same shrink time.

RazorLAME MP3 encoding was dominated by the Athlon 64's, with the FX-57 returning the fastest encode time. The Pentium Extreme Edition 955 was second from last, but wasn't too far behind the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz. The newer i975X chipset recorded a consistently slower time, but we're talking about a single second slower over the course of our encode test.

SuperPI 2M is a single threaded application and, as expected, it was dominated by the faster single core processors. The D975XBX desktop board proved to be faster than the Gigabyte i955X-based motherboard. SuperPI is very memory bandwidth intensive, so we were expecting this to a certain extent.