ECS C19-A SLI Motherboard Review
3D Performance: 3DMark05
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3DMark05 measures performance by simulating DirectX 9.0c games, i.e., using Shader 3.0 model. This programming model is used by games like Far Cry. This programming model is used by GeForce series 6 and 7 from NVIDIA and Radeon X1000 series from ATI.
You can find the results below.
| Motherboards | 3Dmark05 (Build 1.2.0) |
% |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2 | 6109 | +73.21 |
| EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2 | 3593 | +1.87 |
| Foxconn 915A01-P-8EKRS2 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 3590 | +1.79 |
| MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2 | 3573 | +1.30 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 3572 | +1.28 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2 | 3563 | +1.02 |
| Albatron PX915P Pro (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 3532 | +0.14 |
| DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 3529 | +0.06 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 3527 | 0.00 |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) Normal/DDR2 | 3527 | |
| EPoX 5EPA+ (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 3526 | -0.03 |
| DFI LanParty 875P-T (Intel i875P) AGP/DDR | 3347 | -5.38 |
| ECS 865PE-A7 (Intel i865PE) AGP/DDR | 3330 | -5.92 |
| DFI LanParty 925X-T2 (Intel i925X) PCI-E/DDR2 | 3166 | -11.40 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR | 3160 | -11.61 |
| DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) DDR2 | 3075 | -14.70 |
| PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) AGP-Pro/DDR2 | 1323 | -166.59 |
| ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) AGP-Express/DDR2 | 1297 | -171.94 |
On this test ECS C19-A SLI achieved a performance similar to the majority of motherboards we tested, being faster than DFI LanParty 875P-T (Intel i875P) AGP/DDR, ECS 865PE-A7 (Intel i865PE) AGP/DDR, DFI LanParty 925X-T2 (Intel i925X) PCI-E/DDR2, ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR, DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) DDR2, PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) AGP-Pro/DDR2 and ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) AGP-Express/DDR2.
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 73.21% 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 | 3Dmark05 (Build 1.2.0) |
% |
| MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2 | 6121 | +0.20 |
| ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2 | 6109 | |
| EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2 | 5943 | -2.79 |