Intel D875PBZLK

[nad]

Originally posted by Sandog
Well lets se'em then NAD. Realdieu is yours 16K cuz your writes seem low.

I am currently running on a 128KB strip size because of further testing.... I am waiting on some new parts and drivers and then I am doing a final reinstall with 16KB strip.

Pretty much ever since I got my Canterwood setup, I have done nothing but benchmarking and testing.. Haven't even had same Windows setup or RAID volume on more than a fews days at a time.

[Sandog]

Well thats cool. It takes me days to load my OS, drivers, software, and updates. I already have my board at it's highest FSB speed and fastest memory timings so there is nothing else for me to do. I think I will try out the 16K stripe next time I reinstall Windows XP. Right now it is just not worth the effort to gain a little bit of hard drive quickness.

By the way, I don't know why you would want to spend 500$ to replace a Radeon 9800Pro. That 5900 might be ever so slightly faster but it won't look as pretty.

[TQ]

Got my audio workstation rebuilt this past weekend around the D875PBLK/P4 2.8 with Hyperthreading and all I says is: Wow.

Here's what is really made an impression. When I fired up a saved session in Cool Edit Pro I nearly jumped out of my chair.
The audio was much more detailed and had greater presence.
Not in volume, but in preceived range and seperation.
It was so significant that my wife who is not known as an audiophile even commented on it.
I'm still using my Echo Audio Gina24 soundcard, so it's not that.
I can't explain it, not that I'm complaining mind you, but the difference was pretty impressive.

[epicbard]

Originally posted by realdieu
And mine:

hey nice reads. could the lower writes be due to the 16k stripe?

[Underwater Mike]

Wondering if I should've bought the Intel board instead of the ABIT. My machine is never stable long enough to start overclocking.

Hopefully a replacement will fix that...

[Miles]

Originally posted by Mike Donatello
Wondering if I should've bought the Intel board instead of the ABIT. My machine is never stable long enough to start overclocking.

Hopefully a replacement will fix that...

Aside from the 4% OC that the Intel D875PBZ board allows for in what they call "burn in Mode". You have the ability with this board to: 1) Change memory timings; 2) Run in manual mode memory at 266, 333, or 400; 3) Use the "burn in mode" that I described earlier; 4) You also have a separate control to use "burn in mode" again up to 4% with AGP/PCI so I guess in effect if this is left a 0% increase it's kinda the same as locking the AGP/PCI when the system is OC'ed.

[Sandog]

Originally posted by milesc3
Aside from the 4% OC that the Intel D875PBZ board allows for in what they call "burn in Mode". You have the ability with this board to: 1) Change memory timings; 2) Run in manual mode memory at 266, 333, or 400; 3) Use the "burn in mode" that I described earlier; 4) You also have a separate control to use "burn in mode" again up to 4% with AGP/PCI so I guess in effect if this is left a 0% increase it's kinda the same as locking the AGP/PCI when the system is OC'ed.

So thats it. I was hoping a new bios would let you do both.

[Sandog]

Originally posted by TQ
Got my audio workstation rebuilt this past weekend around the D875PBLK/P4 2.8 with Hyperthreading and all I says is: Wow.

Here's what is really made an impression. When I fired up a saved session in Cool Edit Pro I nearly jumped out of my chair.
The audio was much more detailed and had greater presence.
Not in volume, but in preceived range and seperation.
It was so significant that my wife who is not known as an audiophile even commented on it.
I'm still using my Echo Audio Gina24 soundcard, so it's not that.
I can't explain it, not that I'm complaining mind you, but the difference was pretty impressive.

What board were you coming from. It is a puzzle if you are still using the same PCI soundcard. Maybe the Intel board has cleaner signal paths and less data on its bus to help the card out. I heard the Intel D875PBZ does have a 6 layer PCB whereas most others have only 4.

I tell you what I got into this forum recently because I was looking for answer like never before with this new 875 chipset. There was so much uncharted territory for me and I was worried about mem problems. This is my third Intel board in a row and it is by far the best looking best made(6layers) and fastest in everything. To boot, I think this board right now is one of the cheapest 875 boards out there. I paid 175.00 bran new retail box. I don't know why anybody would not at least consider this board. Not to forget the great driver support either.

[TQ]

Originally posted by Sandog
What board were you coming from. It is a puzzle if you are still using the same PCI soundcard. Maybe the Intel board has cleaner signal paths and less data on its bus to help the card out. I heard the Intel D875PBZ does have a 6 layer PCB whereas most others have only 4.

My previous board was an i815EEAU2. I love the Intel boards. They're all I use. Your guess that it's possibly cleaner signal paths resonates with what I'm thinking, but I can only speculate that's it.

By the way, my game machine is running with an i850E/533 MHZ FSB motherboard and two sticks of Kingston PC1066.
Like I said. Love the Intel boards.

[Miles]

Originally posted by TQ
My previous board was an i815EEAU2. I love the Intel boards. They're all I use. Your guess that it's possibly cleaner signal paths resonates with what I'm thinking, but I can only speculate that's it.

By the way, my game machine is running with an i850E/533 MHZ FSB motherboard and two sticks of Kingston PC1066.
Like I said. Love the Intel boards.

Me too TQ...I now have two: 1) D845PEBT2; and 2) D875PBZLK both are incredibly stable and once the memory was tweaked to optimal settings they are both incredibly fast. I'll probably stay with Intel from now on

[Sandog]

I've had about 4 Intel motherboards and not one ever died or had a problem with it. Intel does thousands of hours of testing on these chipsets and how they are best laid out on the board along with using tried and true non-Intel parts. Look at what the other MB manufacturers do. They get the chipset from Intel and throw on the cheapest or newest and not thoroughly tested RAID controller, LAN chipset or other bells and whistles, and cram it in amongst the primary circuits and out the door in less than a month. The only other board manufacturer that I think comes close to Intel in stability is ASUS IMHO.

[Sandog]

Originally posted by TQ
My previous board was an i815EEAU2. I love the Intel boards. They're all I use. Your guess that it's possibly cleaner signal paths resonates with what I'm thinking, but I can only speculate that's it.

By the way, my game machine is running with an i850E/533 MHZ FSB motherboard and two sticks of Kingston PC1066.
Like I said. Love the Intel boards.

Here's a review of Intel's new D865PERL MB. It appears to have a really good music progy thats called Sonic Focus that comes with the board to use with the onboard sound chip. Check it out.

http://www.motherboards.org/articles...ws/1250_4.html

[MikeR]

I must sincerely thank Mr. Steveo (for his install guide) and Sandog (for his D875PBZLK-specific hints), without their assistance I assuredly would have still be scratching my head and dealing with installation or configuration problems.

Just over 6 hours of elapsed time from when the FedEx guy delivered all the parts, and my D875PBLK is up, running, and blazingly fast. Not bad for someone who's not built a computer since the late eighties -- can you say 80286?

Here is the Raptor SATA RAID0 array disk performance, and if I'm reading this stuff correctly, it looks like my system is slightly quicker than thost who've posted their ATTO scores to this thread:

http://www.pbase.com/image/18305994

I'll download some other benchmarking sofware tomorrow and post the results.

Thanks guys, for making it easy. I truly appreciate your assistance...Mike

[MikeR]

Well, I couldn't wait until tomorrow to see just how fast this sucker is...

Using 3DMark2001SE, it scored a 17860.

It was also the first time I've seen the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in action, and all I can say is WOW!

Tomorrow, I'll try and tune the video card and memory to see if I can squeeze some more performance from this one, but in the meantime, thanks again guys...Mike

[Sandog]

Congratulations Mike. Your ATTO scores look better than mine. There's a new bios that came out a few days ago if you didn't see it. (PO7). I hope you have Windows XP professional on that computer.

Anyway, what memory did you end up getting, I might have missed your previous post. And what stripe size did you set your RAID config. to?

Enjoy.