It should be interesting how this board performs against the various P45 Express chipset motherboards that we’ve tested before. I would imagine the board would test in the same performance range as the other Gigabyte EP45 boards and am not expecting any surprises in terms of performance here. There is a new Intel motherboard and CPU chipset coming soon that will require a new platform. We will add HD encoding and change the video card to a ATI HD 4870 for that platform.
Test System
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 running at 2.66GHz
- 2GB Crucial Tracer DDR2-1066MHz DDR2 memory running at 1066MHz
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA drives in RAID 0
- EVGA 8800GTS SSC 320MB video card running 175.16 Forceware drivers
- HiPer Type M 880W PSU
- Windows Vista 32-bit business with SP1
- Philips DVD-RW
Tests
- SpecViewPerf 10
- 3DMark05/06
- PCMark05/Vantage
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- Pifast
- wPrime
- Sysmark 2007 Preview with Patch 3
- Aquamark 3
- Sisoft Sandra X1
