Gigabyte® GA-8I945P Dual Graphic-R Review-World's First SLI on i945 Chipset?

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Article: Gigabyte® GA-8I945P Dual Graphic-R Review (World's First SLI on i945 Chipset?)

Target Audience: E/O (N=Newbie, E=Hardware Enthusiast, O=Overclocker, B=Budget
Many thanks to AsiantTech, and TipidPC for providing the motherboard and videocards, Intel® for providing the processor.

VI. Performance Testing-Special Features-R.G.B.

To continue testing with the motherboard, I proceeded with testing the features of the motherboard. This will be focusing on the R.G.B or Rapid Graphics Booster. Upon tinkering with the BIOS, I saw that there are three (3) options: auto, fast, and turbo. On my early initial test, I only used the "auto" settings, this time around, I will be using the other two options: fast and turbo, and at the last part will be a graph comparing the performance increase with each settings.

The graph below summarizes and puts everything in proper perspective. There's clearly a gain when changing the settings in the BIOS, resulting to better benchmark scores. It is very interesting to note that all 3DMark benchmarks (3DMark01, 3DMark03, 3DMark05, and 3DMark06) have shown improved performance.

::3D Test::

3DMark01SE

3DMark03

3DMark05

3DMark06

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