facebook rss twitter

Review: ECS KN1 Extreme

by David Ross on 10 January 2005, 00:00

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qa6a

Add to My Vault: x

CPU Tests

Moving onwards, lets now take a look at a few CPU-based tests, to see how well a CPU is allowed to do its thing on the motherboard in question. First up, Kribibench.

Kribibench v1.1

Kribibench

Another close run thing, but yet again the KN1 Extreme outdoes EPoX's nForce 3 offering but finds itself a little behind the EQS solution.

LAME MP3 Encoding

LAME

Results are usually very close here due to this benchmark being strictly CPU limited, but surprisingly we find the KN1 Extreme a few seconds off the pace of the other two boards here.

Realstorm

Realstorm is a test which makes use of raytracing in real-time - Functionality that can't be hardware accelerated on a GPU, so thus all the work is done on the CPU.

Realstorm

Not a lot to choose between the three motherboards, but again we find ourselves with an ECS sandwich as the KN1 Extreme sits in-between the other two boards in the performance stakes.