Gigabyte GA-8I945GMH-RH Motherboard Review
3D Performance: Quake III
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Even though this is an old game its importance comes from the fact its engine is used by several other games, like Jedi Knight II and Medal of Honor, and also because this game is very sensitive to any changes on the hardware configuration. So we used this game to check how the reviewed motherboard acted running old but popular games.
We used the demo four available on version 1.32 of Quake III to make our benchmarking with this game. We ran this demo three times at 1024x768x32 resolution and all image quality settings on their default configuration and we picked the middle value for our comparisons, i.e., we discarded the highest and the lowest values. Check the results below.
| Motherboard | Quake III – FPS | % |
| Gigabyte GA-8I945GMH-RH (Intel i945G) DDR2 + GeForce 6200 PCI-E | 262.6 | +125.80 |
| Foxconn 865G7MC-ES (Intel i865G) DDR + GeForce FX 5200 AGP | 197.6 | +69.91 |
| Gigabyte GA-8I945GMH-RH (Intel i945G) DDR2 + GeForce 6200 TC | 175 | +50.47 |
| Intel D915 GEVL (Intel i915G) DDR2 on-board | 117 | +0.60 |
| Gigabyte GA-8I945GMH-RH (Intel i945G) DDR2 on-board | 116.3 | |
| PCChips M985G (Intel i915GV) DDR2 on-board | 116.1 | -0.17 |
| PCChips M985G (Intel i915GV) DDR on-board | 114.4 | -1.66 |
| ASUS P5RD1-V (ATI Xpress 200) DDR on-board | 102.4 | -13.57 |
| Foxconn 865G7MC-ES (Intel i865G) DDR on-board | 71.2 | -63.34 |
Gigabyte GA-8I945GMH-RH achieved a 3D performance similar to Intel D915 GEVL (Intel i915G) DDR2 and to PCChips M985G (Intel i915GV) DDR2/DDR. It was 13.57% faster than ASUS P5RD1-V (ATI Xpress 200) DDR and 63.34% faster than Foxconn 865G7MC-ES (Intel i865G) DDR.
GeForce FX 5200 with 128 MB and 128-bit memory interface installed on a motherboard with AGP slot (Foxconn 865G7MC-ES – Intel i865G) was 69.91% faster than the on-board video of the reviewed motherboard.