ECS A790GXM-A Black Series Motherboard Review
Unreal Tournament 3
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Unreal Tournament 3 is the latest installment from this famous first person shooter franchise, supporting DirectX 10 graphics when installed on Windows Vista with a DX10 compatible card (which was our case). We upgraded Unreal Tournament 3 to version 1.2 and benchmarked it with the help of HOC UT3 benchmarking utility using the “Containment” demo, disabling anisotropic filtering and running the game at 1024×768. The results are below, in frames per second (FPS).
On this game the on-board video from ECS A790GXM-A Black Series (AMD 790GX) achieved again the same performance as a 64-bit Radeon HD 3450, which is remarkable. The on-board video from the reviewed motherboard was 22.22% faster than the one from Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G (AMD 780G) and 69.23% faster than the one from ECS GF8200A Black Series (NVIDIA GeForce 8200).
Enabling Hybrid CrossFire technology performance increased 47.83% compared to the Radeon HD 3450 alone with the on-board video disabled. This is impressive, especially because you gain this performance boost for free if you have a compatible video card.