Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Motherboard Review :: Test Setup and Performance

09-19-2008 · Category: Motherboards

By Ben Sun

The Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 is still on the DDR2 platform meaning that a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU was used along with the other tests. It should be interesting to note the performance differences between the EP45-DQ6 and its other brothers the EP45-DS4 and the EP45 Extreme which will be on the test bench shortly.


Test System

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU running @ 2.66GHz
  • Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Motherboard
  • 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066MHz PC8500 DDR2 memory
  • 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 mode
  • ASUS 16X DVD-ROM Drive
  • Rosewill 950W PSU
  • Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1

Tests

  • Sysmark 2007 with Patch 3
  • PCMark05/Vantage
  • SpecViewPerf 10
  • 3DMark05/06
  • Sisoft Sandra X1 CPU Processor test
  • wPrime95
  • Pifast
  • CPUBench 2003
  • Crystalmark 2004