Test Setup and Benchmarks

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700

Gigabyte P35-DS3R
Gigabyte P35-DQ6
ASUS P5K Deluxe
ASUS P5K3 Deluxe

ASUS Striker
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (P965)
Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6
Shuttle SD37P2 (975X)

2GB Corsair PC2-6400C4 (DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 2.0V)
2GB Kingston PC3-11000 (DDR3-1066 7-7-7-20 1.7V)

BFG 7900GTX

250GB Samsung SATA2

Benchmarks

Lavalys Everest
- Memory Read
- Memory Write
- Memory Latency

3DMark06

Aquamark 3.3

HDTach

Quake 4
- 1024x768 Ultra Quality 4xAA 16xAF
- 1600x1200 Ultra Quality 4xAA 16xAF

Call of Duty 2
- 1024x768 4xAA 16xAF
- 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF

FEAR
- 1024x768 4xAA 16xAF Maximum Settings
- 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF Maximum Settings

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Outdoors 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF
- Indoors 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF
- Foliage 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF

Notes: We included 1024x768 benchmarks to let show how motherboards may affect performance if some of the load was removed from the GPU.