ECS NFORCE4 A939 REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

COMMENT - "For out first test we have choosen PCMARK 2005, it has a variety of tests designed tor benchmark the processor, video card, memory and hdd for a final score. The ECS Nforce4 A939 takes an early lead and it's final score beats the Asrock 939 Dual Sata by 6%."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

3DMARK 2001 SE

32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth

3DMARK 2003

No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

3DMARK 2005

No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
No Fixed Framerate

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

1280x1024 Resolution
Anti-aliasing Disabled
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 3_0
HLSL PS Target 3_0

COMMENT - "After the sudden performance increase for the ECS Nforce4 A939 shown with 3dmark 2005 I was looking forward to seeing the result for 3dmark 2006. The ECS Nforce4 A939 surges ahead of the Asrock 939 Dual Sata2 with a big 15% performance increase."