Metamorphosis from Springdale to Canterwood

Performance Is King: Who Makes The Choice?

Following on, in our last test, the Asus P4P800, equipped with the Intel 865PE chipset (Springdale), placed at the head of the pack in the benchmarks. This made it just as fast as the much more expensive P4C800 motherboard, which is based on the Intel 875 chipset (Canterwood). Our discovery seemed to indicate that the purchase of a P4C800 seemed unnecessary. Why pay more for a chipset when you could get the same thing from its lesser cousin? However, we had to keep in mind that the MSI 865 Neo 2 and the 875 Neo boards do not differ from the press samples and are sold as such in stores. At least MSI allows the customer the option to decide whether or not to use dynamic overclocking or not.