Clock per Clock Comparison: 680i vs 975X

[STaRGaZeR]

P.S- Is all that flame conversation just because I'm portuguese and you're spanish? Cos if it is...this is not the right place to bring your historical frustrations...And because of that, I wont feed this thread any longer, as I explained myself very well and there's nothing more I can add...

LOL WTF man, stop saying things like this... all BS.

It seems that you already know where 975 tops, and 680i too. So dont come here to say that you want want a comparison with the max settings allowed by both chipsets, because:

1. The title of the thread is clear, clock per clock comparison.
2. BenchZowner have said that he will do that test you want when he has all the hardware needed to do it. Is written in his first post, so you must have read it.

The best of the 680i (with a little higher FSB than 975) is the memory overcloking. fhpchris and many others in XS have sucesfully done 600+ on the memory, you only have to search for it.

And the thing about you are portuguese and im spanish... well, its sounds like you have a pain in the ass. Better said, is your historical frustation. Many of you portuguese when see spanish members in a forum, game, etc. start saying stupid things about the history

[fhpchris]

CLOCK-PER-CLOCK PERFOMANCE means anything to you?

If you can even get 975x to run 600 mhz on ram, then do that also.
Clock for clock performance only really means CPU, not same on memmory, because both platforms do not really do the same things...

But I can run 600 mhz cas 5-5-5 on 680i, on 2.2v...


People on 975x run ~450-470 cas 3-3-3 (8*450 1:1 = 3600)
People on 680i run ~600-630 cas 5-3-3 or 4-3-3(8*450 3:4 divider = 3600)

It would be nice to compare which is faster in those cases

Because you have an XE, just use the multi of 8x (you might need ~2.6v for rams to do 450 though if you have a bad set...)

[BenchZowner]

Like I've previously mentioned in my OP, I will run another ( maybe 2 ) comparisons between these boards ( P5W DH Deluxe & Striker Extreme ) this week ( weekend probably ).
I didn't have the "right" memory kit to push both boards to their limits ( my GeIL kit died doing 1058MHz 3-3-3-8 on the P5W ), but I'll be getting some new memory kits this week

I'd like to see where my best ram kit will stop on the P5W & where on the striker...

[sdumper]

Time to jump in

The thread is what it is but as I mentioned before the Striker for me has been able to OC better and obtain better SP simply because it can OC higher.

I did 4.715 with relative ease on my Striker and with the same chip I caped out at 4.5 with a heavily volted moded P5W Deluxe....CPUz for P5W DH and e6700 NOT shown in my sig but Striker is...

[dinos22]

If you can even get 975x to run 600 mhz on ram, then do that also.
Clock for clock performance only really means CPU, not same on memmory, because both platforms do not really do the same things...

But I can run 600 mhz cas 5-5-5 on 680i, on 2.2v...


People on 975x run ~450-470 cas 3-3-3 (8*450 1:1 = 3600)
People on 680i run ~600-630 cas 5-3-3 or 4-3-3(8*450 3:4 divider = 3600)

It would be nice to compare which is faster in those cases

Because you have an XE, just use the multi of 8x (you might need ~2.6v for rams to do 450 though if you have a bad set...)

975X would still win that SPI contest

[fhpchris]

Like I've previously mentioned in my OP, I will run another ( maybe 2 ) comparisons between these boards ( P5W DH Deluxe & Striker Extreme ) this week ( weekend probably ).
I didn't have the "right" memory kit to push both boards to their limits ( my GeIL kit died doing 1058MHz 3-3-3-8 on the P5W ), but I'll be getting some new memory kits this week

I'd like to see where my best ram kit will stop on the P5W & where on the striker...

Oh, which ram kits did you "invest" in

[dinos22]

CLOCK-PER-CLOCK PERFOMANCE means anything to you?

LOL hehehe

[BenchZowner]

Oh, which ram kits did you "invest" in

Actually the kits "invested" on me
The OCZ Reaper HPC (PC8500 or PC9600 / don't know which one :P ), a Corsair 9136C5 Dominator kit, CellShock PC8000 4-4-4, and a 2GB Fatbody kit

If I'm lucky one of these kits will do good ( hopefully )

[BenchZowner]

Let's revive this thread to add the second part

Part 2:

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Test System
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Motherboard: Asus Striker Extreme ( 680i ) & Asus P5W DH Deluxe ( 975X )
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 ( @ 3.66GHz / 333MHz x 11 )
RAM: Corsair Dominator 9136C5D ( TWIN2X2048-9136C5D )
VGA: Twintech GeForce 8800GTX
HDD: Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB

=======================
Configurations
=======================
FSB: 333MHz ( QDR-1333 )
DRAM/FSB: 1:1
RAM Mode: Linked
RAM Sync: Synchronized
RAM Timings: 3-3-3-4

HyperPath 3 - GPUex - LinkBoost: Disabled
Command Rate: 680i = 1T , 975X = 2T
BIOS Versions: Striker1002 - P5W1601
OS:Windows XP Service Pack 2
Drivers:Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility v8,1,1,1010 - nVIDIA nFORCE v9.53 - nVIDIA ForceWare v97.94

===============================
The results
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Hexus PiFast:
680i = 26.47s
975X = 25.92s

SuperPi 8M:
680i = 181.563s
975X = 179.422s

Everest Ultimate v400:
680i = Memory Read: 9511MB/s - Memory Latency: 52.8ns
975X = Memory Read: 8554MB/s - Memory Latency: 50.0ns

WinRAR v3,70 Beta 5 Benchmark:
680i = 1599kb/s
975X = 1710kb/s

3D Mark2001SE:
680i = 60824
975X = 61155

AquaMark 3:
680i = 190977
975X = 193073

x3:Reunion Benchmark:
680i = 85.328fps average
975X = 85.731fps average

Windows Media Encoder 9 - HD ( 5MBPS ) Video Encoding Test:
680i = 8min 12s
975X = 8min 2s

[illuminati-hwt]

Good tests. both part 1 and 2.. :-)

although,

Setting the tRAS to 4 isnt smart. The timing has to complete two cycles because it ends/closes too fast. This might be screwing with the results.
tRAS should in this case be minimum 6. Sry to say it :-/
tRAS should not be lower than tCL+tRCD.

The low tRC on 680i might be hurting performance too. Not sure though. Dont let tRC lower than tRAS+tRP.


edit.. lower than tCL+tRCD

[BenchZowner]

Setting the tRAS to 4 isnt smart. The timing has to complete two cycles because it ends/closes too fast. This might be screwing with the results.
tRAS should in this case be minimum 6. Sry to say it :-/
tRAS should not be lower than tCL+tRCD.

It's not hurting performance

There's a 3rd part covering more stuff

And fast close doesn't occur every time

The low tRC on 680i might be hurting performance too. Not sure though. Dont let tRC lower than tRAS+tRP.

tRC = tRAS + tRP

[Eastcoasthandle]

Thanks for the re-fresher on this issue. Maybe some of those 680i users will finally accept their fate (something I saw illustrated in the past). Oh and let me be the first to post the infamous, "My 680i does this benchmark better <fill in false numbers here> "

[SMa]

in your signature it says you have a P5B Deluxe?
which has a P965-chipset...
would be great if you added that board to your tests

nice comparison though!

[BenchZowner]

in your signature it says you have a P5B Deluxe?
which has a P965-chipset...
would be great if you added that board to your tests

nice comparison though!

I will be adding the P5B in the game in about 2 weeks ( I really need to finish some reviews & round-ups right now )

[Eastcoasthandle]

LOL not one comment from the 680i camp muhahaha!!!
Maybe a nice link post over from their forum perhaps?

[CedricFP]

Wow, great thread! This is really useful. Good going

[Eastcoasthandle]

Wow, still no posts, where is the love?

[Console]

Nice tests , Going to pull the triger on a c2d system soon and glad to have info like to to use as a reference