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ECS KA1-MVP Extreme Xpress 1600 Motherboard Review
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme Xpress 1600 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
Gaming knows no loyalties, and on paper ATI CrossFire looks quite solid. The technology ATi has developed is apparently pretty good if you can actually track down a Crossfire compatible motherboard and the elusive Crossfire master videocard.
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External Mfg. Website: ECS Apr 27 2006   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

Office Productivity Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 27.3
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400) 29.1
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 30.3
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 31.5
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 32.1
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400) 32.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 32.2
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Xpress 1600 200/400) 31.6
Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 36.2
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400) 36.4
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 39.5
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 39
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 39.3
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400) 39.7
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 39.7
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Xpress 1600 200/400) 38.4

The Office Productivity numbers are ever so slightly lower than the nForce4 competition, but it's close enough that users will not notice the difference.

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Motherboards Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 22638 24441 10773 3897 FPU / 5066 SSE2 5993 5944
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400) 22605 24364 10910 3750 FPU / 4845 SSE2 5896 5853
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 (Uli M1695 200/400) 22744 24599 10221 3786 FPU / 4903 SSE2 6081 6037
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 22954 24693 11055 3770 FPU / 4920 SSE2 6071 6031
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 22938 24675 10053 3797 FPU / 4918 SSE2 6043 5997
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 22934 24671 10048 3794 FPU / 4913 SSE2 6078 6045
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400) 22943 24682 10055 3798 FPU / 4920 SSE2 6132 6060
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4- SLI 200/400) 22893 24716 10981 3941 FPU / 5118 SSE2 6105 6050
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Xpress 1600 200/400) 22846 24683 10033 3685 FPU / 4918 SSE2 5946

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Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

Memory bandwidth is slightly slower than nVIDIA nForce4 based motherboards. Overall things are pretty close.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits: Seconds Ranking
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 35
MSI RS480M2-IL (RS480 200/400) 36
Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 35
ABIT AN8 32X (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 35
MSI K8N Diamond Plus (NF4 SLI x16 200/400) 35
DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert (NF4 SLI 200/400) 34
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR (NF4-SLI 200/400) 35
ECS KA1-MVP Extreme (Xpress 1600 200/400) 35

The ECS KA1-MVP Extreme gets a score of 35 seconds in Super Pi. This is standard time for an Athlon64 4000+ based test system.

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Contents of Article: ECS KA1-MVP Extreme
 Pg 1.  ECS KA1-MVP Extreme Xpress 1600 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Rear I/O Exhaust Fan / BIOS Backups
 Pg 3.  ATi CrossFire Xpress 1600 Chipset
 Pg 4.  It's a question of overclocking
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: SYSMark2004
 Pg 6.  — Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: PCMark05, 3DMark05
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: 3DMark06, FarCry, X3 Reunion, UT2004
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: Doom 3, Quake 4, Conclusions

 
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