Review: ECS ELITEGROUP 915-A Mainboard

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 22 March 2005, 00:00

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Memory Tests

ScienceMark 2.0 - Memory Bandwidth


You'd expect a non-enthusiast mainboard based around 915GV to be beaten soundly by a well-sorted, 925XE-based board like the ASUS P5AD2-E, and that's exactly what's going to be shown over the next few pages of benchmarks. The memory bandwidth scores shown above are the first signs of that. It's not that 915GV is particularly slow, especially when the GMA900 core is turned off, it's just that it's not had performance tuning that something like ASUS's P5AD2-E will have had.

ScienceMark 2.0 - Memory Latency


I won't dwell on why the ECS is slightly slower, having explained it above. My apologies for being terse with the performance analysis.

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