Gaming

Our gaming tests set out to find games that were heavily CPU dependent in order to test for platform differences.  Games at higher resolutions with more emphasis on the GPU won’t show us any differences, if they exist.

These tests were not run in any SLI vs. CrossFire modes.

FEAR v1.03

We ran FEAR at 1024×768 with the CPU settings at maximum and the GPU settings at medium to show any performance differences off of the GPU. 

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EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 75

Call of Duty 2 v1.01

We ran CoD2 at 1024×768 with the GPU settings at Medium.

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3DMark06 v1.02

This benchmark is used by many in the enthusiast crowd to compare their systems so we decided it would be good for our readers if we included numbers from our test system here as well.

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Gaming performance is showing to be very fast on the new EVGA 680i LT SLI motherboard in both the lower resolution and higher resolution testing.  Since the board still supports full x16 PCIe for SLI, the performance differences between the two chipsets is basically zip.

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