Quake 4
is the latest shooter from ID and is based on the Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for
more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be tougher on videocards and systems than
its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does not have a 60 fps limiter like Doom 3,
with the Ultra setting, graphic textures can surpass the 500MB mark! Each test
is run three times and with the third run being recorded.
 ID Software Quake 4 1.3 |
| LQ 640x480: |
FPS |
Ranking |
| ASRock AM2V890-VSTA
(K8T890 200/800 A64 5000+) |
154.4 |
   |
| Albatron KM51PV-AM2
(GF6150 200/800 A64 5000+) |
152.9 |
|
| MSI K9N SLI Platinum
(NF 570 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) |
150.5 |
|
| Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF
590 SLI 200/800 A64 5000+) |
146.4 |
|
| ECS PN2 SLI2+ (NF 680i
SLI 266/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
203.7 |
   |
| ECS PN2 SLI2+ (NF 680i
SLI 266/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
200.6 |
|
| Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
(NF 590 SLI 266/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce 7800GTX Single) |
203.5 |
|
| Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
(NF 590 SLI 266/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce 7800GTX SLI) |
198.7 |
|
| Foxconn
975X7AB-8EKRS2H (975X 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
202.5 |
|
| MSI 975X Platinum
(975X 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
202.8 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6
(P35 266/1066 Core 2 Duo) |
205.8 |
|
| MSI P35 Platinum (P35
266/1066 Core 2 Duo) |
207.5 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
(P965 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
202.6 |
|
| Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H
(P965 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
202.4 |
|
| MSI P965 Platinum
(P965 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
202.1 |
|
| Gigabyte 965P-DQ6
(P965 266/800 Core 2 Duo) |
201.2 |
|
 ECS NF650iSLIT-A (NF 650i 200/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce
7800GTX Single) |
202.3 |
   |
| ECS NF650iSLIT-A (NF 650i 200/800 Core 2 Duo GeForce
7800GTX SLI) |
199.8 |
|
In the last test of the day, the ECS NF650iSLIT-A
motherboard puts on another good showing and here we can see this motherboard is
perfectly adequate for gaming tasks. SLi adds next to no performance difference
here.
Installing Value in your
System
ECS has put together a heck of a lot of value in its
NF650iSLIT-A nVIDIA nForce 650i motherboard. With a retail price of $122 CDN ($116 USD, £58 GBP) ECS offers you a platform
that runs fast and doesn't break the bank. Use the money you saved on the
motherboard and get yourself a high end videocard for gaming.
The ECS NF650iSLIT-A motherboard is rather plain, it comes
with the basics like four Serial ATA II ports, two IDE channels, 7.1 channel
High Definition audio and Gigabit networking. If you need to expand the
motherboard, there are two PCI Express x1 slots and three 32 bit PCI slots for
whatever you want to stick into the motherboard. Oh and of course the
NF650iSLIT-A supports nVIDIA's SLI technology.
In terms of performance, well you saw the benchmarks and
it speaks for itself really. The ECS NF650iSLIT-A is perfectly adequate for
workstation tasks as it kept up with Intel's P965 Express and even its new P35
Express pretty well. In gaming the NF650iSLIT-A showed us that it is as
fast as the other nVIDIA nForce motherboards out there.
The ECS NF650iSLIT-A was even decent at overclocking,
hitting a maximum speed of 412 MHz. That was done without having to adjust the
chipset voltages too, if ECS inserts CPU clock multiplier adjustments into
future BIOS revisions, the NF650iSLIT-A has the potential to be an overclocking
monster! ECS has done a great job with the NF650iSLIT-A and if you want
something that's low cost, yet performs well this is definitely a board you want
to check out!
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