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EVGA P55 FTW Motherboard Review
Author: Will West
Published: Monday, November 23, 2009
Benchmarks - Real World
Quake 4
Quake4 is the latest installment in a long line of "Quake" games from id Software. While the storyline is more in line with Quake2 the game engine is taken from Doom3. Together they make for a very exciting game with some pretty amazing graphics. For this benchmark we're using the v1.2 patch and a benchmarking program from Guru3D called HOC_Q4Bench. We're using the id_demo001 for this benchmark on medium quality at 800x600 to minimize any performance gains from the video card.
If you wish to run this benchmark manually you can do the following.
Pull down the console and type "playnettimedemo id_demo001", when complete pull down the console again to see your score.
Pull down the console and type "playnettimedemo id_demo001", when complete pull down the console again to see your score.
Unreal Tournamanet 3
UT3 is the 4th game in the Unreal Tournament series that is exclusively designed for multi player action since there is no story mode game play. While the game play and weapons are similar to the UT2004 counterpart the gaming engine is all new. For this benchmark we're using the UT3Bench tool from Guru3D and the CarbonFire Botmatch to record framerates. Resolution was set to 800x600 to minimize any performance gains from the video card.
Crysis
Crysis is based in a fictional future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the Earth on an island near the coast of China. Crysis uses Microsoft's new DirectX 10 for graphics rendering, and includes the same editor that was used by Crytek to create the game. In a way it's a pretty version of Far Cry that runs on Vista.
Xvid Encoding
XviD Movie Encoding Test: This is a new test that was added to cover other sections of real-world performance. The test consists of a simple task of encoding a DVD rip from VOB to AVI with AutoGK 2.45 using the XviD codec. The movie used is the first chapter of Dirty Pair Flash #2 and consisted of 40104 frames. The time shown is how many frames per second were processed during the first pass to encode the video files.
Real World Conclusion
Our real world benchmarks are designed to illustrate a cross section in performance that covers gaming and video encoding.
The playing field is not near as wide as the synthetic benchmarks. The EVGA P55 FTW and Core i5 750 shows that is can hold it's own on the gaming area especially when you consider the overall cost of one system over another.
The playing field is not near as wide as the synthetic benchmarks. The EVGA P55 FTW and Core i5 750 shows that is can hold it's own on the gaming area especially when you consider the overall cost of one system over another.
