Intel 925XE chipset reviews out now

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Yousuf Khan said:
Initial reviews are coming out now.

http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/intel/925xe/

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=811

Yousuf Khan
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I didn't ready the reviews you posted but I did read the one at
http://www.anandtech.com, it looks like the last review you posted (of the
OC'd 915?) wasn't so invalid after all. According to the article on
anantech.com the higher FSB and DDRII did very little to help out the P4.
Intel really needs to get it's act together and come out with something good
again.

Carlo
 
Carlo said:
I didn't ready the reviews you posted but I did read the one at
http://www.anandtech.com, it looks like the last review you posted
(of the OC'd 915?) wasn't so invalid after all. According to the
article on anantech.com the higher FSB and DDRII did very little to
help out the P4. Intel really needs to get it's act together and come
out with something good again.
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It was actually an overclocked 875P chipset. No, I didn't think going to the
actually-designed-for-the-job 925XE would actually help them much at all,
however it still wasn't a fair comparison until this chipset came out. DDR2
has a long way to go before it's competive with DDR1, that's for sure. The
overclocked 875-chipset (with DDR1-400) was as fast a DDR2-667 on 925; take
into account price/performance ratio and DDR2 is left in the dust.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan said:
It was actually an overclocked 875P chipset. No, I didn't think going to the
actually-designed-for-the-job 925XE would actually help them much at all,
however it still wasn't a fair comparison until this chipset came out. DDR2
has a long way to go before it's competive with DDR1, that's for sure. The
overclocked 875-chipset (with DDR1-400) was as fast a DDR2-667 on 925; take
into account price/performance ratio and DDR2 is left in the dust.
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Tom's hardware shows that it runs better with 667 (which clocks to 711 with
the 1.3 multiplier) memory, but still not as good as it should be. I agree
with anand that the P4EE is not a good choice for this architecturally. It
would benefit Prescott much more. Why they didn't build it for Prescott
just yet, who knows!
 
Judd said:
Tom's hardware shows that it runs better with 667 (which clocks to 711 with
the 1.3 multiplier) memory, but still not as good as it should be. I agree
with anand that the P4EE is not a good choice for this architecturally. It
would benefit Prescott much more. Why they didn't build it for Prescott
just yet, who knows!
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I'm surprised that Intel even tried to get another P4EE out of the
Northwood (actually Gallatin, since it's really a Xeon) core. It's
obvious that the Northwood tops out at 3.4Ghz. Prescott (probably
actually Nocona) might have gotten them upto 3.8Ghz.

Yousuf Khan
 
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