ECS PF21 Extreme

Summary:

The ECS PF21 Extreme, with the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz installed is slightly slower than the Intel D925XCV motherboard by around 1% over the course of these benchmarks. The Pentium 4 3.73EE, which is based on the Prescott core, improves some of the benchmarks quite considerably but, despite the increased clock speeds, it is slower than the Galatin-based 3.4EE in the CPU multimedia test that we have used.

As we increase the bus speed, the performance of the ECS PF21 Extreme increases in a linear fashion, as it should do. In particular, the unbuffered memory bandwidth test received the largest performance gain from the increased bus speed. Again, this is as we expected, as the memory bus speed was increased together with the CPU front side bus using the 1:1 ratio.