ECS KN1 Extreme NF4 SLI motherboard Review

Test Setup

Test Systems

Both nForce4 Ultra boards will use identical hardware which will include the following:

• AMD X2 3800+ CPU
• 1 GB Corsair XMS 3200XL memory @ 2-2-2-5
• ATI Radeon X850 XT video card
• Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB HDD
• Antec SmartPower 2.0 550W PSU

The nForce4 SLI boards will use the following components:

• AMD X2 3800+ CPU
• 1 GB Corsair XMS 3200XL memory @ 2-2-2-5
• 2 x XFX 6600GT video cards
• Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB HDD
• Antec SmartPower 2.0 550W PSU

*All testing was done using a fresh install of Windows XP Profeessional with SP 2, NVidia’s 6.66 Chipset Drivers, ATI’s Cat 5.8 Driver for the ATI cards and 78.01 for the NVIDIA cards.

Testing consisted of the following benchmarking programs:

• 3DMark05 (CPU Test)
• 3DMark03 (CPU Test)
• Aquamark 3 (CPU Test)
• PCMark05
• Sisoft Sandra 2005 (CPU Arithmetic)
• Sciencemark
• Super Pi Mod 1.4
• Cinebench 2003
• Far Cry
• Doom 3