Intel 945P Motherboards from Gigabyte - Dual Core Compared

Test System Setup

Processor: Intel Pentium D 820 (800MHz FSB) (Supplied by Intel)

Memory: 2x 512MB Corsair DDR2-800 (Supplied by Corsair)

Hard Disk: 2x Seagate 400GB 7200.8 (RAID 0)(Supplied by Seagate)

Graphics Card: ASUS Radeon X800XT Platinum (Supplied by ASUS)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2

Drivers: ATI Catalyst 4.9 and DX9c

SiSoft Sandra

Version and / or Patch Used: 2005 SR2a

Developer Homepage: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk

Product Homepage: http://sisoftware.jaggedonline.com/index.php?location=home&a=TTA&lang=en

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SiSoft Sandra (System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a synthetic Windows benchmark that features different tests used to evaluate different PC subsystems.

Here we can see that the I955X has a slightly higher bandwidth than the I945's. In the contest between the two Gigabyte boards, both perform almost identically.

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