Performance

Now for the fun part. I will be comparing the Soyo Dragon 2 PE to the Asus P4P800 VM, seeing as it is the only other P4 board I have. All tests were run on the exact same system on a fresh install of WinXP and the latest drivers for sound and video.

Test Rig

Intel P4 2.4c Hyperthreading processor
2x Corsair PC3500 512MB in single and dual channel modes
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
Sound Blaster Live!
200GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (fresh format and install of WinXP)
LiteOn 16X DVD
420W Thermaltake PSU

Benchmarking software:

Sisoft Sandra Pro
Aida32
ScienceMark
PC Mark 02
3D Mark 03 (330 patch)
3D Mark 01 SE
Vulpine GLMark

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic
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ALU

FPU

ISSE2

Dragon 2 PE (Single Channel)

Dragon 2 PE (Dual Channel)

P4P800-VM (Single Channel)

P4P800-VM (Dual Channel)

7365

7220

6681

7109

0

Performance (Higher is Better)

8000

 

 

ALU

FPU

ISSE2

Dragon 2 PE (Single Channel)

Dragon 2 PE (Dual Channel)

P4P800-VM (Single Channel)

P4P800-VM (Dual Channel)

2060

2060

2063

2062

0

Performance (Higher is Better)

8000

 

 

ALU

FPU

ISSE2

Dragon 2 PE (Single Channel)

Dragon 2 PE (Dual Channel)

P4P800-VM (Single Channel)

P4P800-VM (Dual Channel)

4336

4596

4596

4419

0

Performance (Higher is Better)

8000

 

 

Both boards perform about the same during single channel testing, but the P4P800-VM seems to fall behind during single channel ALU Performance while the Dragon 2 is up to standard.

Both boards do quite well, but the P4P800-VM is a bit slower during float calculations.