We upgraded Quake 4 to version 1.3 and ran its multiplayer demo id_demo001 at 1024x768x32 with image quality settings configured at “low” four times. The first result was always discarded, and from the other three values, we discarded the highest and the lowest score, i.e. we used the middle value for our comparison. You can see the results below.

On Quake 4 with our memories set at 800 MHz Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R achieved the same performance level as ECS P35T-A, Abit IP35 PRO, ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition (Intel P965), ASUS P5B (Intel P965) and MSI P35 Platinum, being 3.44% faster than Intel D975XBX2 (Intel 975X), 4.49% faster than ECS PN2 SLI2+ (nForce 680i), 6.35% faster than ECS NF650iSLIT-A (nForce 650i), 6.44% faster than MSI P35 Neo Combo (Intel P35) and 7.50% faster than ASUS P5N-E SLI (nForce 650i).

When we set our memories to run at 1,066 MHz we saw no significant performance improvement on this test.

Comparing all motherboards with their memories running at 1,066 MHz, Abit IP35 PRO (Intel P35) was 3.67% faster, ASUS P5B (Intel P965) was 3.21% faster and ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition (Intel P965) was 3.01% faster than the reviewed motherboard, which achieved the same performance level of MSI P35 Platinum.