Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS)
that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and
having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still
able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.
| Quake III Arena Fastest demo001 (SYSTEM) |
|
Motherboard (FSB) |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
SL-85DR2 - 133 MHz |
306.5 |
|
| 2. |
SL-85DR2 - 158 MHz |
361.7 |
 |
| Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU STRESS) |
|
Motherboard (FSB) |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
SL-85DR2 - 133 MHz |
87 |
|
| 2. |
SL-85DR2 - 158 MHz |
102.7 |
|
Breaking
300 fps is something special. You can see the big performance boost due to
overclocking!
Conclusions:
With a retail price of
$150 CDN the Soltek SL-85DR2 is no frills i845E motherboard. Performance and stability on
the SL-85DR2 was excellent never giving us any problems.
Sure the
performance wasn't as fast as say the Iwill P4R533-N, but for a DDR based
motherboard this is "about as good as it gets".
The SL-85DR2 is a very
expandable motherboard with six PCI's, 4x AGP slot and USB 2.0 you shouldn't
have any problems attaching devices/peripherals to the motherboard. For those
who want LAN or IDE RAID built onboard Soltek does have a version of the
SL-85DR2 that has those features as well. Obviously though, it'll be more
expensive.
For enthusiasts, the amount of jumpers may be a turn off since
most other motherboards allow the same tweaks to be done in BIOS's. The Soltek does
have the options overclockers are looking for but it's just not as fun when you
have to toy with jumpers.
We like how the power connectors are in the same general
location but they're actually too close to each other. It's hard to plug one if
if the other is occupied. If you're looking for a pretty motherboard that performs well then the Soltek SL-85DR2
could be for you!
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