Intel Pentium Processor 965 Extreme Edition Review

Sandra 2005 SR3

Sisoft; Sandra 2005 SR3:

SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of
computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship
product, known as “SANDRA”, was launched in 1997 and has become one of
the most widely used products in its field. SANDRA is used by almost
400 world-wide IT publications, magazines, review sites to analyse the
performance of today?s computers.

Multi-Core Support: As well as SMP
(multi-processor) and SMT (multi-threading/Hyper-Threading) support we
have added multi-core support for future AMD and Intel CPUs. The
benchmarks have been optimised to schedule the optimum number of
threads on the optimum (virtual) CPU on both multi-core and
Hyper-Threaded computers.

Taking a look at the CPU multi-media benchmark results we see that
the Intel 955/965 and Intel 840 processors take the lead on this one.
The AMD FX-60 is not too far behind though.

In terms of memory bandwidth the Intel processors love the 1066MHz
FSB and the Intel 955/965 and Intel 3.73 are nearly identical because
of
the same bus speed. Both of the Intel processors rated at 3.73GHz
scored the same on the memory bandwidth testing. This means our
test bench is producing solid numbers and was shocking when we made the
graph!