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Gigabyte 8N-SLI Royal Review - PAGE 9
William Henning - Friday, July 1st, 2005

Doom 3

Surprisingly Doom 3 did not do well on the Royal, which was almost 10% slower than the leading board in this test. I am beginning to suspect that Gigabyte is using more conservative PCIe timing than the other board manufacturers, which is fine from a stability point of view - but I wish there was some way of tweaking their settings.

Half-Life 2

As usual, the 8N-SLI was a bit slower than most of the other boards; only the AA8XE was slower. However unlike Doom 3, it was only 2.4% slower than the leader.

Article Index

1.Introduction
2.The Bundle and Board
3.The BIOS
4.Hardware and Test Setup
5.Business Winstone and Multimedia Content Creation
6.SiSoft Sandra and RightMark
7.LAME MP3 Encoding, XviD & TMPGEnc MPEG2 Encoding
8.Call of Duty and Comanche 4
9.Doom 3 and Half Life 2
10.Halo and Jedi Knight 2
11.Unreal Tournament 2004 and X2 Rolling Demo
12.Overclocking and Conclusion
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