Intel P35 Bearlake Motherboard And DDR3 Memory – Asus and Corsair
Below are our test system configurations for a proper perspective of how we tested. For our processor, we chose a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 chip, that when setup with a 333MHz FSB and multiplier of 9X, also runs at an even 3GHz at stock voltage. At this setting we obtained a 1333MHz FSB and matching 1333MHz DDR3 speed. 1066MHz FSB speeds were recorded at the processor's stock setting of 266MHz with a multiplier of 10X.
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We began our testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. We ran three of the built-in subsystem tests that partially comprise the SANDRA XI suite (CPU, Memory Bandwidth, and Latency) with the a Core 2 Duo E6700 at 2.66GHz and overclocked with a 333MHz FSB and 9X multiplier at 3GHz.
In these tests, we learn that Front Side Bus speed really doesn't equate to any advantage in compute throughput. However, looking at the second set of Whetstone iSSE3 scores, we see the apparent advantages of Intel's new Bearlake chipset and possibly the influence of the new MCH. At identical settings, with a 1066MHz FSB and a 2.66GHz CPU clock, the P35-based Asus motherboard outpaced the P965-based system by about 3%.
