Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6

Name: Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 - Page 9
Brand: Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, July 12, 2007, 10:00 PM EDT

For our last set of game tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. When testing processors and motherboards with Q4 or F.E.A.R, we drop the resolution and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually do place some load on the CPU rather than GPU.

Benchmarks with Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. v1.08

DirectX 9 Gaming Performance

Our Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. benchmarks had all three of the motherboads we tested performing within a few percentage points of one another. The Gigabyte board took top honors in the Quake 4 test, however, the Intel 975X-based motherboard took the lead in F.E.A.R.

Tags: Gigabyte, sli, 680, 80s

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com