Review: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI - Mainboard - HEXUS.net

Graphical Tests

Graphics-wise, let's now run a few graphical tests past the board, starting with a single GeForce 6800GT in our usual set of graphical motherboard benchmarks.

3DMark2001 SE

The GA-K8NXP-SLI rig brings up the rear here, but again is all but on the same performance level as ECS' nForce4 Ultra part.

3DMark03

Only the benchmark's margin of error separates the three boards in the GPU-limited 3DMark03.

Painkiller

Painkiller is a similarly tight story, with not much over half a frame per second between the three motherboards.

SLI testing

Sadly, I didn't have access to a normal SLI video card setup during the brief period in which this board was available to us for testing, so traditional SLI performance couldn't be tested on this occasion. However, this board did ship with Gigabyte's 'SLI on a single board' solution, the 3D1, which offers SLI performance on a single video card thanks to its two GeForce 6600GT cores. We've reviewed this part itself using this very motherboard here, which should give you some idea as to how this solution will stack up in a normal SLI configuration.