| ECS A770M-A (V1.0) AMD 770 Motherboard
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Testing:
For testing purposes, the ECS A770M-A (V1.0) AMD 770 motherboard was installed in a system with the following additional components:
� AMD X2 6000+ processor
� Asus Arctic Square CPU cooler
� 4GB (4x1024) Patriot PC2-6400 Low Latency DDR2 RAM
� eVGA 8800GTS 640MB PCI Express graphics card
� Tagan ITZ 1000W power supply
� 80GB Seagate SATA 3Gbps hard drive
� 500GB Seagate SATA 3Gbps hard drive
� SATA DVD/CDRW
� 6-in-1 Media Card reader
� Fans: 2x120mm; 2x80mm
Testing consisted of running through a handful of benchmarks (with a reboot between each benchmark), plus a bit of real world testing for good measure. The system as described above was run through the tests listed below:
Tests Executed:
� Lavalys Everest Ultimate Edition Version 4.2
� Simpli Software HD Tach RW 3.0.4.0
� Sisoft Sandra Xii SP1
� Futuremark PCMark Vantage
� Futuremark 3DMark06
� Real World:
� Crysis Medium Settings
� Crysis High Settings
Motherboard Compared:
� ECS A770M-A
� Asus M3A
� Asus M2N32-SLI
The Asus M3A and ECS A770M-A are based on the AMD 770 northbridge chipset, with the AMD SB600 southbridge. The northbridge and southbridge chipset comparison makes these boards nearly identical. While the older Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard is based on the older nVidia 590 SLI MCP chipset.
Everest 4.2 Ultimate Edition:
First up we will cover the results of the Lavalys Everest Ultimate Edition Version 4.2 Memory Benchmark. Higher values are better for read and write speeds (in MB/s), while lower values are better for the latency (in ns).
I was not surprised by the difference in scores between the ECS A770M-A and the Asus M2N32-SLI. The newer chipset has better memory handling. What did surprise me is the difference between the ECS A770M-A and the Asus M3A motherboard. I was expecting the scores to be similar, but the Asus M3A scores are closer to the Asus M2N32-SLI motherboard, and the ECS A770M-A is the clear winner!
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