Eight P35-DDR2 Motherboards Compared

Synthetic, Continued

The only board that really stood out in the remaining Sandra test was the 650i SLI comparison part, with a stunning loss in the memory bandwidth test. It appears that Intel's memory controller is superior to Nvidia's.

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