Performance
The PF22 was benchmarked using the same Pentium 4 660 (3.6Ghz, 2MiB L2 cache memory) and 3-2-2-8 DDR2-533 memory as our recent PA1 MVP Extreme, using Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition as the graphics board. It's also the same basic platform hardware as used by Tarinder in our 3-way i955X mainboard shootout, here. The full test system details will be presented in our full review next week, and won't change between now and then either. A subset of our usual benchmark suite gives you a taster of how the PF22 does.The board goes up against the PA1 MVP Extreme. As another Intel-based Crossfire board using DDR2 memory, it's a great comparison.
Although, we heartily warn you, it's not the most interesting reading ever. The same memory and CPU subsystems, setup the same way, with the same graphics, software setups and whatnot = much the same stuff from all vendors.
First Look Results
Two platform and one memory benchmark lets us get a glimpse of how the PF22 Extreme is doing before it's compared to PA1 MVP Extreme and ABIT AW8-Max next week.
Tarinder has demonstrated i955X's memory bandwidth ballpark performance in our roundup and the PF22 follows suit, besting the ATI-powered PA1 MVP by just over 7%.
Kribibench has the PF22 marginally on top, with Cinebench one of those mainly platform agnostic tests that hits the CPU hard. The two Crossfire platforms do the same stuff with that particular test.
Hopefully that gives you a clue as to where overall performance will lie in our full article. In summary, the PF22, from these benchmarks at least, is a competent P4 performer.
