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Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006
Benchmarks - Synthetic
Time for the benchmarks! 
The system as it was tested
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Intel 975X Express Chipset
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Reference System
Basically same as above only using a dual core Pentium D
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Intel 975X Express Chipset
Pentium 4 830 (3.0Ghz) 2x1MB L2 cache 800MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Intel 975X Express Chipset
Pentium 4 830 (3.0Ghz) 2x1MB L2 cache 800MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
CPU-Z
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2007.9.10.105
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
Synthetic Conclusion
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions. The purpose of these tests is not only to highlight the performance of the 975X but also to show how much faster the Core 2 Duo is over the dual core Pentium D 830.
