Intel 560 3.6GHz 775 on an Abit AG8 and AA8 guru

ABIT WAS ALWAYS cock of the north for overclocking populations and its boards are reputed to offer options even for dabblers in the OC black art.

At Intel's launch of the 3.6GHz "socket T 775", Abit had two boards ready and chucked them my way to review them.

P4 560 3.6 GHz socket T 775 pins - not

When I talk about the "new" Intel Pentium 4 I have to say that a lot of things have changed from ye olde socket 478 days. This socket was actually with us for a long time, and even started meriting the tag "traditional". But now Chipzilla has decided to change pretty much everything. You pretty much have to change everything to upgrade to this one.

As for the CPU we have already bored you to tears about this one in the middle of May, one month away from the "lifting of the NDA veil", but we will repeat that this CPUs has 775 connections and that the socket has the pins. We still think it's very fragile and the socket comes with a plastic cover that is supposed to prevent some pin bending. Scary stuff.

Abit AG8 Grantsdale 915P board

Abit AG8 Alterwood 925 board

Results

Quake 3	640x480	1024x768
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	444.7	409.5
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	441.3	410.5
Aquamark 3	CPU
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	10175	61.09
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	10102	61.26
3Dmark 2001SE	Nature	1024x768
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	161.4	21232
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	161.3	20645
UT 2003 Fly	640x480	1024x768
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	261.65	261.49
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	258	257.9
UT 2003 Bot	640x480	1024x768
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	81.64	81.29
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	80.4	80.1
PC Mark 2002	CPU	Memory	HDD
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	7649	11764	1032
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	7585	11944	1057
P4 3.2C FSB 800 Epox 4PCA3+ 875	6571	4955	N/A
PC Mark 2004	CPU	Memory	HDD	Total
Abit AG8 915P Guru 3.6 GHz 775	5526	5384	3866	5327
Abit AA8 Guru 925P 3.6 GHz 775	5465	5437	3746	5316
Sandra 2004 SP2	Abit AG8 915P	Abit AA8 925P	P4 3.2 GHz
CPU	10469	10470	8121
	4281/7423	4278/7403	3283
Memory	4641	4765	4842
	4637	4763	4861
Multimedia	25450	25454
	34165	34122
Composite Figures	3Dmark03	Game 1	CPU Test 1	CPU Test 2
Abit AG8 915P	10758	289.7	107	13.4
Abit AA8 925P	10838	300.3	107.1	13.6