Roundup: Six Core 2 Motherboards Under $100

Benchmark Results: Synthetics

The Jetway BI-500 takes a small win in 3D Mark.

PC Mark favors the Biostar TP43D2-A7 while Jetway falls into last place. Notice that even with its slower memory speed, the ECS G45T-M2 has remarkably good overall performance.

MSI had the highest default CPU overclock at 0.26% over stock, yet Sandra’s processor tests are the first to show any performance advantage for the P43 Neo3-F.

The BI-500 dominates Sandra Memory Bandwidth, and this probably explains why it had so many first-place finishes. Notice that even while the ECS G45T-M2 required both slower memory speeds and moderately-high latencies, its memory performance is not weak.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.