Synthetic Gaming Performance

Futuremark's 3DMark applications are very well-known, but at best, they really just represent performance from one more potential gaming engine. We wouldn't give them any more weight than the results from a single game, though the CPU scores are actually a pretty good indication of processor performance.

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Gaming Performance - Futuremark/p>

Gaming Performance - Futuremark

Gaming Performance - Futuremark

Nearly all of the 3DMark results are very close together for the equivalent systems. The one major exception is the 3DMark05 CPU chart. If the results are accurate, there is an indication that the performance of the EVGA motherboard is not as optimized as it could be. However, it's really nothing to get overly concerned about, as the largest margin of victory is only 7%, and the margin in the other match-ups is under 2%. The margin of error for 3DMark is around 3%, and generally speaking, you will not notice anything less than 10%.

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  • JarredWalton - Monday, March 6, 2006 - link

    HDCP support is a graphics/display issue. As has been reported, HDCP is not supported on any current retail graphics cards. It's also not supported under Windows XP. We should start seeing HDCP enabled cards (meaning, with the necessary decryption chip) in the near future. The GPUs are ready, but they still need the appropriate chip soldered onto the boards.

    Personally, I'm really not happy with HDCP at all, so I'm doing my best to avoid it. 1280x720 DivX looks quite nice and runs flawlessly on current hardware. Here's an example from the olympics (18GB compressed to 4.5GB 1280x720):

    http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/multimedia/tvt...">2006 Olympics Men's Hockey Gold Match
  • AGAC - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    Hey, what's to love about HDCP. That said, it seems that we just will have to swallow that frog... I mean, DivX does look nice indeed. The problem is availability of mainstream content. I think it's going to be a very cold day in hell before you can walk in the regular video rental and get the latest blockbuster title in beautiful DivX 1280x720.

    DHCP will be broken, we all know that. It only harms the legal user because one will have to upgrade video cards, monitors and god knows what more will not be HDCP compliant. Thanks for the your tip and simpathy. Keep up the good work.

    AGAC
  • DigitalFreak - Monday, March 6, 2006 - link

    NT

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