Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
We compared the ECS P67H2-A against two of its LGA 1155 competitors — the Gigabyte P67A-UD4 and ASUS P8P67 Pro. Testing this board against other comparable LGA 1155 motherboards should give our readers a general overview of this board’s performance against other solutions in its class.
CPU-Z screenshots
Test System Setup |
|
CPU |
Intel i5-2500K (running at 3.3GHz, 100×33) |
Motherboards |
ECS P67H2-A
ASUS P8P67 Pro Gigabyte P67A-UD4 |
Memory |
OCZ (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Dual Channel |
Hard Drive |
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA 3GB/s |
Sound Card |
Onboard sound |
Video Card |
Gigabyte GTS 250 512MB |
CPU Cooling |
ECS A.L.C. Vantage watercooling unit |
Video Drivers |
NVIDIA: 266.58 |
Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w |
DirectX Version |
DX10 / DX9c |
Operating System |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit |
Our 64-bit test bench for LGA 1155 processors includes 4GBs of dual channel DDR3 memory, a GTS 250 512MB graphics card, and a Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA hard drive for storage. This configuration is based off a typical mid-range users LGA 1155 system and focuses on evaluating the motherboard’s features and abilities and less on the rest of the hardware components.
Benchmarks used:
– SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP1
– CineBench 11.5 64-bit
– Handbrake DVD compression
– 3DMark Vantage
– Crysis Warhead
– Far Cry 2
– Just Cause 2
– PCMark Vantage