In order to test the board, we used the following setup (this is the same setup for the comparison motherboards as well):

• CPU: Intel XE6800
• Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB PC2-8000
• PSU: OCZ GameXStream GXS600 SLI-Ready
• VGA: MSI 7600GT Silent (stock memory/core timings)
• HDD: WD 800JB

For comparison, we post results from a reference Core2Duo motherboard, the Intel D975XBX rev00 with 1351 BIOS. In both cases, we used Intel's Core2Duo XE6800 with default speed (2933.4MHz). Each motherboard was left to select memory timings. For the Intel motherboard, we manually set FSB to 1066MHz

- Everest Ultimate Edition 2006

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiast PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking, it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

The software has several built-in tests for both memory and CPU/FPU. Due to the fact that the 945G supports only 800MHz FSB, we expected somewhat lower memory performance, something that was more or less confirmed:

In the FPU/CPU tests, the Foxconn 945G7AD displayed higher performance than Intel's 975XBX:

Lastly, the Sisoft Sandra 2007 SP1 scores, support the fact that Cache and Memory are nor as strong on the Foxconn as on the Intel motherboard, but the Foxconn motherboard was faster in all the CPU tests.