[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[ReverendMaynard]

Good name I am off to Val d'isere for a week to try and break a leg - when I get back I expect to see posts about your incredibly fast matrix RAID setup.

Have fun

Hopefully by the time you get back, I'll have grown a sack and killed my current perfectly functional operating system in the name of retarded performance.

[jonny_ftm]

I saw it in the table but the info wasn't filled in, sorry if I overlooked it.

Where my results close to what you got?

They are very close to the last column of my table. The memory Read performance is a bit better in your case, but with 25MHz better clocks on the quadcore it could help, as the difference is small. On the other hand, I got a much worst latency than yours that could not be explained by the overclocked CPU.

I don't really plan to test again though, as the 8x475 is stable for me

Hello,

My mashine is:

Intel E8400
Corsair Dominator DDR1066 4GB
Corsair Dominator AirFlow Extra Cooling.
Asus 8800GT TOP
Seagate Baracuda 500GB 7200.11 32MB
Corsair HX620W PSU.

So I don't know which one take motherboard. I think about ASUS P5K-E/WiFi or P5K Premium/WiFi-AP BP. I use this PC for overclocking...

On a C2D, the P5K-E will be more than enough, and less expensive. If you plan to move to a quadcore and OC it, it could limit you

[ReverendMaynard]

They are very close to the last column of my table. The memory Read performance is a bit better in your case, but with 25MHz better clocks on the quadcore it could help, as the difference is small. On the other hand, I got a much worst latency than yours that could not be explained by the overclocked CPU.

In fact, my 425x9 1066 looks quite similar to your 475x8 1187 tests albeit with marginally lower read performance. Interesting...

Maybe it's not really worth pushing the FSB and creating that extra heat for nothing.

[jonny_ftm]

In fact, my 425x9 1066 looks quite similar to your 475x8 1187 tests albeit with marginally lower read performance. Interesting...

Maybe it's not really worth pushing the FSB and creating that extra heat for nothing.

It's a real debate. In most tests, low multi/high FSB has in fact no real world application improvement over high multi/lowFSB. The memory latency does have, though, depending on applications.
That's why I preferred a lower memory frequency with a CAS4 (8x475, 950MHz memory)
I'm lucky I can push the FSB without extra heat (9x425 and 8x475 give me same temperatures on the CPU and system) nor extra voltage. Maybe having active cooling on the NB and RAM helps, so I go for the 475 FSB