Gigabyte EP45-DS3R ReviewMakaveli - September 10, 2008
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First up are the system specific benchmarks that will test overall scientific performance. For the science tests, only the scores with the 8800GT are shown to make the direct comparison to the other boards with the same setup.
To get things stated, I will begin with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:
- Resolution: 2750x2048
- Quality: 500
- Limit Memory Use: 512MB
The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.
WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 10MB, 100MB, and 500MB files, as well as test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds.
The Gigabyte EP45-DS3R and the Gigabyte EP-45 Extreme performed just about the same in most of the benchmarks. My main test board the X48-DQ6 is beaten at the 500MB RAR test