Foxconn 975X7AA Crossfire Mainboard 

Performance

In the beginning of the review we mentioned the large crowd of i915 owners out there who are a bit reluctant to walk away from DDR just yet.  I have been one of these folks not wanting to invest my hard earned jack in components that may not catch on.  Remember RAMBUS?  Well, with DDR2 now taking to AMD, you can rest assured that DDR2 is here to stay.  With that said, what does the Foxconn 975X7AA offer say the i915 based user?  To this end, our comparison product is going to be a DDR based i915 mainboard with all other factors being equal (same drives, VGA, CPU etc.)

Our testing today will cover things with a variety of angles and benchmarks to include SiSoft Sandra 2007 Pro, Business Winstone 2004, Content Creation 2004, Super Pi, Battlefield 2, Need For Speed: Most Wanted and Futuremark's 3Dmark 2006.  All results are the average of five runs per bench per test bed with the highest and lowest scores being thrown out.  Windows XP SP2 was used with all currently available updates and patches installed.  All drivers used are also the most current as of the time of this writing.  Let's have a look at our test beds then see what we can see.

Test Bed (i915)

• Intel 3.6GHz LGA775 Processor

• Chaintech Zenith VE V915P mainboard

• Kingwin AquaStar H2O Kit

• Albatron GeForce 7800 GTX

• (2) 512 MB DIMM of Corsair XMS4400 Memory

• Maxtor 100GB SATA HDD

• Lite-On Dual Layer 16x DVD Burner

• Kingwin Absolute Power 600w PSU

• Windows XP Pro SP2

Test Bed (Foxconn 975X7AA)

• Intel 3.6GHz LGA775 Processor

• Kingwin AquaStar H2O Kit

• Albatron GeForce 7800 GTX

• (2) 512 MB DIMM of OCZ EL PC2-5400 Gold Memory

• Maxtor 100GB SATA HDD

• Lite-On Dual Layer 16x DVD Burner

• Kingwin Absolute Power 600w PSU

• Windows XP Pro SP2

Results

PC Magazine's Business Winstone 2004 starts us off.  Business Winstone 2004 runs a suite of many popular office programs, measuring their speed then generating an overall score.  The programs it uses are Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft FrontPage 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Project 2002, Microsoft Word 2002, Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003 and WinZip 8.1.  This gives a good practical measure of real world performance with real world apps.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - The board
Pg 3 - More board / BIOS
pg 4 - BIOS / Fox One
Pg 5 - Testing: Business Winstone
Pg 6 - Content Creation, SiSoft Sandra 2007 Pro
Pg 7 - Super Pi, 3D Mark 2006, Battlefield 2
Pg 8 - NFS:MW / Overclocking / Conclusion