Performance Results; Overclocking
Benchmarked against the AW9D Max at identical settings, the AB9 Pro puts in a yawn-worthy performance. That's not to say it sucks; far from it, of course. It's just there's little to chat about when we've gone over generic performances in the same vein a trillion times in the weeks since Core 2 Duo's launch. We've run the full gamut and we've even had the time to generate the graphs for everything this time, but we'll save typing and analysis time for something a bit more worthy. What follows is a few choice results with some discourse, and a list of the rest so you can get your Neo-esque, "Whoa, these results are.......whoa", on in private without us spoiling it with our own version.Results
The AB9 Pro's ICH8R is measurably speedier than the ICH7R on the AW9D Max in our USB2.0 read test from a drive hooked up externally.
Memory access latency is down at identical settings on the AB9 Pro.
And bandwidth is measureably up, reinforcing what we've seen from stock-clock P965 boards in recent weeks. The MSI P965 Platinum for example showed off similar talents.
HEXUS Crypto - AB9 Pro wins
HEXUS Pifast - AW9D Max wins
Realstorm 2004 - AB9 Pro wins
MP3 Encoding - Tie
DivX Encoding - AB9 Pro wins
Kribibench - AB9 Pro wins
Cinebench - AB9 Pro wins
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - AW9D Max wins
