ECS PN2 SLI2+ (680i SLI) Motherboard Review

Everest

EVEREST Ultimate Edition; v3.50:

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is
an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for
enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology.
During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system
and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics
capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and
memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system
performance and compare it to previous states or other systems.

Multi-Core Support:Full support for dual and quad-core Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core
2 Extreme and Xeon processors, including CPU diode temperature
measurement for all processor cores. Fully optimized CPU and
SSE-enabled floating-point benchmarks to show the outstanding
performance of Core 2 processors.

The Everest Memory bandwidth results are pretty much a dead heat. This was the logical outcome of these two boards since they are so closely related(we did not have Everest results for the Intel and Nvidia 590). shipset boards)