Intel Canterwood Showcase Print E-mail
Written by Adam Honek
Sunday, June 22, 2003
Article Index
Intel Canterwood Showcase
i865 Chipsets
New CSA Bus
Pentium IV 800 MHz FSB
AMD vs. Intel, Industry Outlook
D875PBZ Motherboard
D875PBZ BIOS
Overclocking and Test Setup
Benchmarks
More Benchmarks, Conclusion

Intel D875PBZ motherboard overclocking

Intel has forever been against overclocking their motherboards and processors but are we to believe this is slowly becoming a thing of the fast? Intel’s DB875 motherboard also includes a key option by the name of “Burn-In”. Behind the scenes this name can be associated with a more widely used term “overclocking”. It is possible to overclock albeit slightly either the FSB or AGP/PCI buses. This enables a little extra value for money free performance, but is this all? The answer this time is an unfortunate yes, while the board houses the ability to overclock this feature remains simple and limited. It is best thought of as barely a “Burin-In” feature meant to validate system stability, helpful but not destined to grab the hearts of enthusiastic users globally abound.

 

Benchmarking configuration

AMD System

Processors

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (2.20GHz) 128KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.16GHz) 128KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 333MHz FSB
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.08GHz) 128KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 333MHz FSB
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz) 128KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 333MHz FSB

Memory

4x 512MB Crucial PC3200 DDR SDRAM

Motherboard

Asus A7N8X Deluxe v. 2.0 nVidia nForce2 400 Chipset
nVidia nForce2 Unified Driver Package v. 2.03 Installed

Graphics Card

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGX 8x
ATI Catalyst 3.2 Driver Set Installed

Hard Disk

2x Seagate Barracuda V 120GB in RAID 0 using onboard i875 RAID controller

Operating System

Windows XP Professional Edition
Windows XP Service Pack 1
DirectX 9.0a

Intel System

Processors

Intel Pentium 4 3.2C 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 2.8C 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 2.6C 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 3.06B 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 2.8B 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 2.66 12KB L1 Cache, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB

Memory

4x 512MB Crucial PC3200 DDR SDRAM

Motherboard

Intel DB875BZ Motherboard Intel i875 chipset P06 BIOS
Intel Chipset Drivers v. 5.01.1015

Graphics Card

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGX 8x
ATI Catalyst 3.2 Driver Set Installed

Hard Disk

2x Seagate Barracuda V 120GB in RAID 0 using onboard i875 RAID controller

Operating System

Windows XP Professional Edition
Windows XP Service Pack 1
DirectX 9.0a