Intel D975XBX: Intel brings their Bad-Axe to Market

Memory Performance

We recently switched to version 2.50 of Everest, so these scores are not comparable to previous tests with version 2.20. The memory latency test continues to show a 10% advantage for the nForce4's memory controller. The Intel D975XBX's performance explains the lower scores in our synthetic benchmarks and other benchmarks. Hopefully, Intel will be able to extract additional performance in future BIOS releases.

Overclocking Performance

The overclocking performance graphs have been added to the standard benchmark test suite and should allow for a better comparison on the overclocking capabilities of tested boards. For more details on the specific overclocking abilities of this board, please refer to the Overclocking and Memory Stress Test section in the Basic Features section.

The front side bus overclocking results are impressive for the other Intel 975x boards and still exceed those of the Asus P5N32-SLI. The Intel D975XBX board cannot compete with the other 975x based boards at this time. The BIOS options available certainly hinder this board compared to the more performance-oriented solutions from Asus and Gigabyte. We certainly feel the board is designed well and has the capability of matching the other solutions provided that the BIOS is properly tuned and the FSB options are extended.