P5W64 WS Pro vs P5B DLX vs P5N32-E SLI vs DFI RD600(pics inside)

[^don.k's^]

Nice comparison, that's nothing new tho, RD600 sucks. If they wouldnt have said that it will rock the fall wouldnt be so hard...

[DEVIL K-ce]

Thank's for posting

Good work and 975X still is universal mobo


Regards

Martin

[PcCI2iminal]

thanks you guys for all replys

how we can c RD600 is not that good but not thats bad, she can fly in OC

[PcCI2iminal]

Amazing job!! That must've taken DAYS of work!

2 weeks hehehe

[RatusNatus]

Great job Criminal.

I hope DFI save the RD600 with a more mature bios. It has only a few months...

[PcCI2iminal]

Great work m8
but i got a problem now...my P5W64 died a few days back while i was benching on a cascade and now i dunno what to get ..another P5W64, RD600, Commando, Striker...

why not a change ,single card?-> Commando?
SLI? ->680i?

[PcCI2iminal]

Wow, great comparison! Thanks for this PCCriminal. Do you have any thoughts on the motherboards themselves? Ease of setup? I'm sure we'd all love to know

P5B DLX & P5W64 are very easy to OC,thats the Asus style
P5N32-E ->she uses the BUS speed number to OC and i don`t like it hehe, good setup for ram ,well easy to OC
RD600-> tons of options for RAM,volts,i like the async mode for ram, we need a week or so to learn everything

[PcCI2iminal]

Great job Criminal.

I hope DFI save the RD600 with a more mature bios. It has only a few months...

she is a mature board ,the bios is stable and i have no issues

i think more tweaks are needed

[BlueAqua]

I have both the P5W64 and the RD600 and love them both. Personally the RD600 is a lot more fun than the P5W64. I'd had more success with overclocking with almost 100MHz more FSB stability than the P5W64 on my RD600. Asychronous memory clocking is pretty sweet too, and doesn't get any easier than that.

Clock for clock the 975x chipset is a beast, hands down. I use it in my daily gaming super stable rig. However the RD600 is much more fun to tweak and I've only played with it for about 8 hours. There is just so much to learn and so much more to get out of this board. The RD600 has never given me an unrecoverable lockup, a cmos reset or any other grief.

You really have to pick out your motherboard and cpu together and decide what you want. For low multiplier cpus then the RD600 or any 965 board may be for you, however if you have a higher multiplier then go for the 975x chipset if you want the fastest possible. I like both boards for performance but I really like the RD600 for ease and fun.

[Phosphate]

dual X16 SLI vs dual X8 Crossfire?

How close were they? Or lets ask another question? How close is 650i to 680i in 3 D benchmarks at GPU stock speeds and overclocked GPU speeds?

P.S. With that P5w64 can you use one of the PCI-E slots for a faster kind of RAID card?

[PcCI2iminal]

dual X16 SLI vs dual X8 Crossfire?

How close were they? Or lets ask another question?

7900GTX@ SLI vs X1900XTX @ Xfire?
X1900XT wins for a bit
8800gtx@ SLI vs 1950xtx @ Xfire?
8800GTX rules theses days hehehe

but i think the right question is
SLI?
i975x or 680i= 680i
Xfire?
i975X or RD600= http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=129509

How close is 650i to 680i in 3 D benchmarks at GPU stock speeds and overclocked GPU speeds?

me think is the same

P.S. With that P5w64 can you use one of the PCI-E slots for a faster kind of RAID card?

i haven`t tried but i c no problems to fit it

[Praxis1452]

any chance of 3T? seems to be faster in pi on RD600.

[G H Z]

Some interesting numbers, odd that RD600 is soo far behind in 32M. Large System Cache used? Almost looks like RD600 1T is the same as 2T. P5N32-E for me is over 30s slower at 32M than 975 @ 4.6ghz.

Really great post PcCI2iminal, thanks for that

[mrlobber]

Almost looks like RD600 1T is the same as 2T.

Those early comments by Tony suggested this board needs 1T to fly in performance so I find it weird to see 1T vs 2T on RD600 so close together... but it might indeed be the RD600 oc'ers right now aren't nowhere close to the right tweaks, at least that's one of the explanations... Otherwise the difference in Superpi32M times vs the 975X board is devastating.

[trans am]

Great work man. I've done MB roundups in the past and it's a lot of work. nice job for sticking through it all.

[Revv23]

just terrific, its about time someone gave a direct comparison.

[Mayk-Freak]

Very nice, Good work!

[tinker77]

nice job, thanks!

[GAR]

RD600 is weak.......very weak ati..... i have the same feeling for the R600.

[alpha0ne]

Thanks PcCI2iminal, great work as usual


All I want now is an 650i or an Axe2

[Devious]

Good job!

Would like to see some RD600 sync results

[Okda]

very nice job

would like to see the DFI P965 soon in this comparison

[Ace-a-Rue]

dual X16 SLI vs dual X8 Crossfire?

P.S. With that P5w64 can you use one of the PCI-E slots for a faster kind of RAID card?

i have the regular Asus WS Pro board and i am using the other 16X slot to run an Areca Raid 8X Pcie card...works flawlessly!

[msgclb]

775 WAR
Asus P5B DLX P965 vs P5W64 WS Pro 975X vs P5N32-E SLI 680i vs DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G RD600

These are the tests
3d01
3d06
aqua03
F.E.A.R.
superpi
Nuclearus
ScienceMark
Winrar
Cinebench 9.5

PcCI2iminal, could you add the Asus Commando to this '775 WAR'?

[NickS]

Added this thread to the Ultimate C2D Guide. http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=133706

Thnx