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ECS PN2-SLI2+ Review
[Abstract]
IntroductionIn an effort to improve their standing in the high-end motherboard market, ECS launched the newest member to its 'Extreme' motherboard line up - the ECS PN2 SLI2+. Based on NVIDIA's...
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Test Setup
To benchmark the ECS PN2 SLI2+, we will reuse the same set of benchmarking numbers as we did for the Biostar TF680i SLI Deluxe. This includes results from the ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium (nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition), abit AW9D-MAX (Intel 975X Express), Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and MSI P965 Platinum (Intel P965). Pitting the ECS PN2 SLI2+ and Biostar TF680i SLI Deluxe together will probably be very interesting to note.
The test bed configuration used for all the boards is listed below:-
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor (2.93GHz)
2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 @ 12-4-4 CAS 4.0
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
MSI GeForce 7900 GT 256MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 91.47
NVIDIA nForce 9.53 driver set (for NVIDIA chipset boards only)
Intel INF 8.1.1.1001 and Intel Matrix Storage (AHCI) 6.1.0.1022 driver set (for Intel chipset boards only)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 (and DirectX 9.0c)
Additional Notes
LinkBoost and GPU Ex features are disabled for the ECS PN2 SLI2+ and Biostar TF680i SLI Deluxe in our benchmarks.
The MSI P965 Platinum defaults to CAS 3.0 even if CAS 4.0 is selected in the BIOS, though we've noted minimal impact on performance results.
Benchmarks
The following benchmarks will be used in this review to test the performance of the ECS PN2 SLI2+ motherboard:-
BAPco SYSmark 2004
Futuremark PCMark05
SPECviewperf 9.0
Futuremark 3DMark05
AquaMark3
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