ECS NF650iSLIT-A Motherboard Review

3D Performance: Quake 4

We upgraded Quake 4 to version 1.3 and ran its multiplayer demo id_demo001 at 1024x768x32 with image quality settings configured at “low” four times. The first result was always discarded, and from the other three values, we discarded the highest and the lowest score, i.e., we used the middle value for our comparison. You can see the results below.

On Quake 4 ECS NF650iSLIT-A achieved the same performance level of Intel D975XBX2 (Intel 975X), ECS PN2 SLI2+ (nForce 680i), MSI P35 Neo Combo (Intel P35) and ASUS P5N-E SLI (nForce 650i), while the other motherboards we included in our comparison were faster: MSI P35 Platinum (Intel P35) was 5.24% faster, ASUS P5B (Intel P965) was 5.45% faster and ASUS P5B Premium (Intel P965) was 5.62% faster. For these numbers we compared only the results obtained with the memories running at 800 MHz.