Do bear that in mind when comparing results of the boards as a higher FSB usually will impact the benchmarks in one way or another.

In our test, we run the 3.0 Ghz (P4 800MHZ) processor at 200Mhz FSB and with 2x256M Corsair DDR333 module at DDR400, CAS 2, 5-2-2 on the Springdale/Canterwood boards. For stability, we set the voltage to 2.7v for the DDR. On the ABIT BH7 (i845PE), we ran it using a single stick of 512M Corsair XMS3500C2 at CAS 2, 5-2-2. PAT is enabled by default on all Canterwood boards.

In this chart, we have a mix of Canterwood, Springdale and a Epox 8RDA3+ (nForce2 board). Although you might be wondering why am I testing Springdale versus Canterwood. Well it is because we want to find out the difference in the performance to judge the price/performance ratio.

Did you notice that the ASUS P4P800 (springdale) is as good or even better than ASUS P4C800 (Canterwood) while the rest of the Springdale scores an average of 4424/4412 (Chaintech). The difference is around 14.5%. I know you might ask, did ASUS sent a special engineering sample. We thought why would ASUS tuned their BIOS and overtook their own Canterwood board. They told me that their Canterwood can be tuned better than the current BIOS. If that is the case, we have to wait and see when retail boards are out in the market and see if performance will be maintained.