The test systems that will be used which are outlined are below are almost identical. The only thing that is different between the two is the memory used and of course the motherboards. The Asus P5GD2 Deluxe is using DDRII while the Albatron PX 915G Pro is using regular DDR.
Test systems
Asus P5GD2 Deluxe, Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz LGA775, 1GB (2x512MB) Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO (4-4-4-12), Albatron PCX5750 (425/500), 30GB 7200RPM Western Digital hard drive, Windows XP SP1a and DirectX 9b.
Albatron PX915G Pro, Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz LGA775, 1GB (2x512MB) Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR400 (2-2-2-5), Albatron PCX5750 (425/500), 30GB 7200RPM Western Digital hard drive, Windows XP SP1a and DirectX 9b.
SYSmark 2004 Internet Content Creation
The overall score for SYSmark 2004 internet content creation was four points lower than the with the Asus P5GD2 Deluxe.
SYSmark 2004 Office Productivity
With the office productivity section of SYSmark 2004 the motherboards are almost identical. The Asus P5GD2 Deluxe is a single point lower than the Alabtron board.
RealStorm Benchmark 2004
RealStorm does not test the video card at all which makes it a great benchmark for motherboards. All of the options were left at the default except I changed the resolution to 640×480. With this benchmark the Asus motherboard does a little better than the Albatron board.
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
The Asus motherboard had better memory bandwidth than the Albatron board. This is most likely due to the Asus board running DDRII while the Albatron has older DDRI.
Everest Home Edition Memory Benchmark
Everest is a free and good benchmarking tool for memory bandwidth. The Asus motherboard does better than the Albatron with the read test but is a little slower with the write test.
dBpowerAMP
dBpowerAMP is a free music converter which I used to convert a wav to mp3. Both motherboards converted the file in exactly the same amount of time.
