Albatron PX865PE Pro II

[2sheds]

Just purchased a Albatron PX865PE ProII board and Pentium 4 2.4c. What a sweet board. It's got the lot - RAID (both SATA and IDE up to 6 drives), gigabit LAN, 24 bit (7.1 surround including digital out (both analog and optical), dual bios, USB2 (x8) Firewire - Feature wise there isn't much more you could want on a board.

But how does it perform? Well straight out of the box, i was able to bump up the FSB from the standard 800FSB to 1000FSB at the standard voltage - instant P4 3.0 ghz !! And I ran Prime 95 for 12 hours - this thing didn't miss a beat. And all on the stock Intel heatsink. Temps - Idle around 32c-34c and Load 38c-42c.

And the box advertises a FSB of 1200!! That turns my humple 2.4c into a Pentium 4 3.6ghz. Can't wait till the water cooling turns up...!!

[Woody_87th]

Sounds great!! Keep us posted on how you do. What graphics card are you going to run?

[2sheds]

Sounds great!! Keep us posted on how you do. What graphics card are you going to run?

I am running a ATI Raeon 9700 Pro. Got it jsut before the Albatron. I like it, but haven't had played with the settings much. It generates a fair bit of heat into the case. Currently the case temp is 25c and the CPU is 30c (o/c @3.0ghz and standard fan). I think the 9700 is adding about 5c to the case...

[Woody_87th]

You just need to keep the air flowing through the case. That seems a little steep, I doupt the video card is increasing the case temp that much since it's only barely above room temp (unless you live in an igloo;) ) . In any case (no pun intended) you're temperatures seem pretty cool.

Let's see some benchmarks. :D

[RDR]

I've heard good things about the OC'ability of the P4"C" chips - I haven't had a chance to play with mine just yet - hopefully on the weekend I will
....no water cooling here though, just a volcanoe7+

- I'm also interested to see what the Radeon 9600 Pro will Oc to - there's a bit of hype surrounding them as well:D :D :D

[2sheds]

- I'm also interested to see what the Radeon 9600 Pro will Oc to - there's a bit of hype surrounding them as well:D :D :D

RDR

I will be interested to see how much of a real difference you see between the 9800 and 9600 Pro in both benchmarks and just look and feel i.e If 3dmark wasn't higher would you know?

After using a nForce board (Abit NF7-s) for some time, I must say I prefer the stability of the Intel chipset.

[eva2000]

same board PX865PE PRO2.. my full experiences so far at http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...hreadid=177577

a preview :)
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Dual Channel benchmarks - WITHOUT MAM/PAT enabled bios

i ran sandra mem burnin overnight at 2.85v and now

1.02 beta bios

2.4C with AX478 + 80cfm delta on high
room temp = 18-20C

230FSB
230MEM at 2-6-3-3
vcore = 1.525v bios
vAGP = 1.7v bios
vdimm = 2.85v bios
OC Stability DDRAM = Standard
HT enabled
Spread Spectrum Enabled
SATA disabled
Promise Raid disabled

sandra mem buffered


sandra mem unbuffered


pcmark2002

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/albatron/benchmarks/2x512mb_xms3500c2/230-230-2633-ht-st-specon/pcmark2002-2633-ht.jpg

3dmark2001se

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/albatron/benchmarks/2x512mb_xms3500c2/230-230-2633-ht-st-specon/3dmark2001-2633-ht.jpg

3dmark2003 build 320

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/albatron/benchmarks/2x512mb_xms3500c2/230-230-2633-ht-st-specon/3dmark2003-2633-ht.jpg

superpi 8m

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/albatron/benchmarks/2x512mb_xms3500c2/230-230-2633-ht-st-specon/superpi-8m-ht-2633.jpg

prime95 still running

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/albatron/benchmarks/2x512mb_xms3500c2/230-230-2633-ht-st-specon/prime95-running-ht-2633-cpuz4.jpg

yes prime95 image shows cpuz reporting memory @230mhz 2-3-3-6 being pc2700 but it's 2x512mb xms3500c2 which have been wrongly programmed as pc2700 heh
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[The__tweaker]

The memory bandwidth score you got on pc mark 2002 is just sick, nothing other than a SICK score..! :wow:

Oh can't wait til I have my Asus P4P800 Deluxe and a Gb of Corsair.. :flames:

[eva2000]

The memory bandwidth score you got on pc mark 2002 is just sick, nothing other than a SICK score..! :wow:

Oh can't wait til I have my Asus P4P800 Deluxe and a Gb of Corsair.. :flames:

here's some 5:4 action with cheaper 2x 256mb ocz premier pc3500 memory which cost AUD$88/each

2.4C@3204mhz (267FSB) 5:4
2x 256MB OCZ PC3500 Premier (rated at 2.5-4-4-7 at 2.6v)
@213mhz 2.5-4-4-7 at 2.85v
with 1.01 bios
with vcore 1.6v haven't tried lower yet
with 1.7v vAGP
with HT enabled
with Promise IDE Raid disabled
with SATA disabled

could load windows and run benchies at 270FSB/216MEM 2.5-7-4-4 but pcmark2002 rebooted.. (strange at 270FSB/216 cpuz doesn't report any memory info, do timings or what rated stick they are - at 267FSB/213mhz cpuz detects memory normally)

Results







Aida read

Aida write

Sandra CPU

Sandra CPU Multimedia

Pcmark2002

3dmark2001

3dmark2003

SuperPi 1m

SuperPi 16m

[code:1:f7cba64577]
QPI-Quick Pi v2.00, (c) 2000-2002 S. Pagliarulo
Freely distributable, email: [email][email protected][/email]

Computation of Pi to 67108864 digits
Method used : Chudnovsky
Started : Wed Jan 01 14:14:27 2003

Series size : 4732093 (67108874 digits)
Initialization time : 0.02
Series time : 804.07
Final value time : 153.70

Total time : 957.79 seconds (15 mins, 57.79 secs)
Total memory used : 560153888 (534.20 MB)
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SpecviewPerf 7.0
[code:1:f7cba64577]
Run All Summary

---------- SUM_RESULTS\3DSMAX\SUMMARY.TXT
3dsmax-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 7.741

---------- SUM_RESULTS\DRV\SUMMARY.TXT
drv-08 Weighted Geometric Mean = 32.29

---------- SUM_RESULTS\DX\SUMMARY.TXT
dx-07 Weighted Geometric Mean = 24.63

---------- SUM_RESULTS\LIGHT\SUMMARY.TXT
light-05 Weighted Geometric Mean = 12.75

---------- SUM_RESULTS\PROE\SUMMARY.TXT
proe-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 10.75

---------- SUM_RESULTS\UGS\SUMMARY.TXT
ugs-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.848
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[eva2000]

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270FSB/216Mem missing mem info in cpuz







Sandra CPU

Sandra CPU multimedia

Aida Read

Aida Write


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more 1:1

2.4C@2641mhz (220FSB) 1:1
2x 256MB OCZ PC3500 Premier (rated at 2.5-4-4-7 at 2.6v)
@220mhz 2.5-3-3-7 at 2.85v
with 1.01 bios
with vcore 1.6v haven't tried lower yet
with 1.7v vAGP
with HT enabled
with Promise IDE Raid disabled
with SATA disabled







Aida Read

Aida Write

Sandra CPU

Sandra CPU Multimedia

PCmark2002

3Dmark2001

3Dmark2003

Sciencemark

SuperPi 1m

SuperPi 16m

Prime 95 v23.4 bench