ECS AMD690GM-M2 Motherboard Review

ECS AMD690GM-M2 Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on July 12, 2007	Page 3 of 11
How We Tested During our benchmarking sessions we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable device was the motherboard being tested. Hardware Configuration BIOS version: May 11th, 2007 Motherboard revision: 1.0A Processor: Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6 GHz) with 512 KB L2 cache. Cooler: AMD. Memory: Two Corsair PC8500 CM2X512-8500 modules with 512 MB each, installed under DDR2 dual channel configuration (5-5-5-15 timings). Hard Drive: Samsung HD080HJ (SATA-300, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB buffer). Video Cards: XFX GeForce 6200 TC 64 MB 64-bit, Leadtek GeForce 6200 128 MB 128-bit and MSI factory-overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB. Video resolution: 1024x768x32 85Hz. Power Supply: Antec Neo HE 550. Software Configuration Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS Service Pack 2 DirectX 9.0c Driver Versions ATI video and chipset driver version: 7.2 IGP Nvidia video driver version: 93.71 (on GeForce 6100 and 6200) Nvidia video driver version: 101.17 (on GeForce 7025) Nvidia video driver version: 158.22 (on GeForce 8800 GTS) Nvidia nForce chipset driver version: 8.26 (on ECS GeForce6100SM) Nvidia nForce chipset driver version: 14.10 (on Abit AN-M2) Nvidia nForce chipset driver version: 9.35 (on ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe) Audio driver version: Realtek R1.60 Audio driver version: Realtek A3.86 (on ECS RS485M-M) Used Software SYSmark2004 – Patch 2 PCMark05 Professional 1.2.0 3DMark 2001 SE 3.3.0 3DMark03 3.6.0 3DMark05 1.2.0 Quake III Arena 1.32 We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.
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