Review: ECS C19-A SLI

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 13 April 2006, 09:00

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System Setup and Notes

  • ECS Elitegroup C19-A SLI Test Platform
Processor(s) Intel Pentium 4 670J
3.8GHz, single-core, 2MiB L2, Prescott-2M, LGA775
Mainboard(s) ECS Elitegroup C19-A SLI
ASUS P5WD2 Premium (i955X)
Memory 2GiB DDR2-667
Memory Timings 4-3-3-8
BIOS Version 7th February 2006
Disk Drive Seagate ST3160812AS, 160GB, SATA2
Graphics Card(s) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX (650/800)
Graphics Driver NVIDIA ForceWare 84.12
ATI CATALYST 6.2
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32-bit
Core Logic Driver(s) NVIDIA 4.50 (ECS)
Intel 7.0.0.1020 (ASUS)

Software

Test Software
  • ScienceMark 2.1
  • Realstorm 2004
  • Kribibench
  • picCOLOR v4.0
  • HEXUS Pifast
  • HEXUS Crypto
  • HDTach
  • LAME MP3 Encoder
  • 3DMark05
  • Far Cry
  • Quake 4
  • Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Notes

Tests were run a minimum of three times and the median result reported. If values weren't part of a repeatable set, they were discarded and obtained again. Driver defaults were used throughout and stock clocks for all hardware was used unless otherwise noted.

Performance comparison is via an i955X-based board (ASUS's P5WD2 Premium) to see if the cheap ECS C19-A SLI can keep up with a mainboard costing over twice as much.