System Setup and Testing Methods
For this review, I compared the ECS KN3 SLI2 to the EPoX EP-AF590SLI2, to get an idea of the ECS’s performance in comparison to another member of the 590 SLI chipset family.
GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 Test System Setup | |
CPU |
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ |
Motherboards |
ECS KN3 SLI2 EPoX EP-AF590SLI2 |
Memory |
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 |
Hard Drive |
Maxtor SATA 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB |
Sound Card |
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic |
Video Card |
EVGA 7800GTX KO Edition |
Video Drivers |
162.22{Microsoft SLI and CrossFire HotFIX (KB936710)} |
DirectX Version |
DX10 |
Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
Benchmarks:
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SiSoft Sandra XI
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Windows Media Encoder 9
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DivX 6.5.1
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LAME MT
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WinRAR 3.70
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3DMark06
- Call of Duty 2 1.01
- Oblivion
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PCMark05
Is this motherboard PCIe 1.0,
Is this motherboard PCIe 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0?