Intel 925X Roundup

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The five 925X boards in this roundup have all finally found some method of achieving reasonable success in reaching performance levels that Intel never intended you to reach. However, they are far from fixed and there is still much room for improvement - with one notable exception. The overclocking field for 925X right now seems to be clearly the Asus P5AD2 Premium, followed by a wide margin by everything else. We don't know how Asus did it, but for the past month, every other manufacturer has also been trying to figure it out, and they haven't completely figured it out either. So, Asus wins the Creative Engineering 101 award in a very spirited race. It is the only motherboard in the running that managed a 280 FSB with a top-line PCIe video card and a SATA hard drive on air cooling, and number 2 is at 265 after many, many BIOS revisions.

However, it would also be a mistake to look only at overclocking ability in evaluating these five top 925X motherboards because it totally dismisses the important performance differences that we found in these five at stock speed. Fortunately, this is one situation where the winner in the overclocking wars is also the top performer in stock speed benchmarks. In benchmark after benchmark, Asus and Gigabyte were the top 2 performers. That combined with the Asus domination of the 925X overclocking gives that rare clear winner of the 925X roundup.