ECS C19-A SLI Motherboard Review
3D Performance: 3DMark03
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3DMark03 simulates DirectX 9 games, which are the games available today on the market. So we used this software to see how the motherboard being reviewed acts running DirectX 9.0 games.
You can check the results below.
| Motherboards | 3Dmark03 (Build 3.6.0 |
% |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2 | 14013 | +62.45 |
| MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2 | 8632 | +0.07 |
| EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2 | 8632 | +0.07 |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) Normal/DDR2 | 8626 | |
| Foxconn 915A01-P-8EKRS2 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 8609 | -0.20 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 8582 | -0.51 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 8579 | -0.55 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 8577 | -0.57 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 8577 | -0.57 |
| EPoX 5EPA+ (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 8574 | -0.61 |
| Albatron PX915P Pro (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 8548 | -0.91 |
| DFI LanParty 875P-T (Intel i875P) AGP/DDR | 8535 | -1.07 |
| ECS 865PE-A7 (Intel i865PE) AGP/DDR | 8511 | -1.35 |
| DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) DDR2 | 8478 | -1.75 |
| DFI LanParty 925X-T2 (Intel i925X) PCI-E/DDR2 | 8472 | -1.82 |
| DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 8447 | -2.12 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) AGP-Pro/DDR2 | 7485 | -15.24 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) AGP-Express/DDR2 | 7469 | -15.49 |
Under normal mode ECS C19-A SLI achieved a performance similar to the majority of motherboards included in our tests, being faster only than the two boards that have an AGP slot derived from PCI Express bus, called AGP-Pro by PCChips and AGP-Express by ECS.
We included ECS C19-A SLI results with SLI for you to compare the performance difference you may expect when enabling SLI on this motherboard. Enabling SLI we had a 62.45% performance increase on this test.
Comparing the results among SLI-enabled motherboards (see table below), ECS C19-A SLI achieved a performance similar to other motherboards we tested.
| Motherboards | 3Dmark03 (Build 3.6.0 |
% |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2 | 14013 | |
| EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2 | 13992 | -0.15 |
| MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2 | 13950 | -0.45 |
