3DMark03 simulates DirectX 9 games, which are the games available today on the market. So we used this software to see how the motherboard being reviewed acts running DirectX 9.0 games.

You can check the results below.

Motherboards	3Dmark03 (Build 3.6.0	%
ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2	14013	+62.45
MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2	8632	+0.07
EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) Normal/DDR2	8632	+0.07
ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) Normal/DDR2	8626
Foxconn 915A01-P-8EKRS2 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2	8609	-0.20
PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2	8582	-0.51
ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR	8579	-0.55
ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR2	8577	-0.57
PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR	8577	-0.57
EPoX 5EPA+ (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR	8574	-0.61
Albatron PX915P Pro (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR	8548	-0.91
DFI LanParty 875P-T (Intel i875P) AGP/DDR	8535	-1.07
ECS 865PE-A7 (Intel i865PE) AGP/DDR	8511	-1.35
DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) DDR2	8478	-1.75
DFI LanParty 925X-T2 (Intel i925X) PCI-E/DDR2	8472	-1.82
DFI LanParty UT 915P-T12 (Intel i915P) PCI-E/DDR	8447	-2.12
PCChips Tidalwave T18 (Intel i915P) AGP-Pro/DDR2	7485	-15.24
ECS 915P-A (Intel i915P) AGP-Express/DDR2	7469	-15.49

Under normal mode ECS C19-A SLI achieved a performance similar to the majority of motherboards included in our tests, being faster only than the two boards that have an AGP slot derived from PCI Express bus, called AGP-Pro by PCChips and AGP-Express by ECS.

We included ECS C19-A SLI results with SLI for you to compare the performance difference you may expect when enabling SLI on this motherboard. Enabling SLI we had a 62.45% performance increase on this test.

Comparing the results among SLI-enabled motherboards (see table below), ECS C19-A SLI achieved a performance similar to other motherboards we tested.

Motherboards	3Dmark03 (Build 3.6.0	%
ECS C19-A SLI (nForce4 SLI XE) SLI/DDR2	14013
EPoX 5NVA+ SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2	13992	-0.15
MSI P4N Diamond SLI (nForce4 SLI) SLI/DDR2	13950	-0.45