CrossFire Performance

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The performance of the ECS KA1 MVP in our CrossFire gaming benchmarks is very competitive with the other ATI based boards. This board displays excellent throughput results and even manages to exceed the Asus A8R32-MVP in the more demanding GPU titles Call of Duty II and F.E.A.R..

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The performance pattern continues in the synthetic benchmarks with the ECS KA1 MVP providing very consistent performance figures compared to the other boards. Basically, the performance of the ATI based boards is so close that your choice of supplier should be based upon features and customer support.

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  • Per Hansson - Saturday, April 8, 2006 - link

    Well, from your last mobo review: "Attention - Per Hansson by Gary Key on: Mar 23, 2006 12:06 AMRating: 4
    Our next article will have a high resolution picture of the capacitors and other items of importance in a pop-up window. I am sure the capacitors utilized on this board will be of interest to you. ;->"
  • Gary Key - Saturday, April 8, 2006 - link

    quote:

    Well, from your last mobo review: "Attention - Per Hansson by Gary Key on: Mar 23, 2006 12:06 AMRating: 4


    Please email me - I have the photographs. We are doing some revisions on the engine and could not get these in but I did take the photographs for you.
  • Stas - Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - link

    I always had nVidia and ViA chjpset based mobos. Now I really want an ATi based mobo. Very nice perfromance and overclockablility. It's good that ECS made a board like that, better for the competition. I got tired of seeing 1337 ASUS and DFI mobos, now it's time for less popular companies.
  • SilverTrine - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    And somehow Nvidia gets a pass for all their issues. The original Nforce was a totally unstable board on par with something like Abits awful KG7. Yet the fanboism let many to the slaughter with that board. Nforce 2 also had severe USB and IDE problems, yet fanboism kept most of that in the dark.
    Hopefully we can all get past the fanboism and be honest about things, as long as people are getting paid to post on boards that is a pipe dream though. We simply have to call these vultures on their conduct.
  • QueBert - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    I owned a number of Nf2 MB's, and now a Nf3. SW-IDE doesn't work at all on any of them for me. Infact on 1, it actually caused my burner to not burn until I uninstalled them. Nf3 I have the lovely NF Firewall thing, does this work even somewhat for anyone? I'm not a fan boy, but from my past Nvidia experince (and remember I run a NF3 board now...) the ATI couldn't possibly be much worse. could this board be bad? sure, you can take a decent chipset and ruin it with a poorly designed motherboard.
  • bob661 - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    I'm going to test the firewall sometime when I get the chance. I'm willing to bet I won't have problems but I could be wrong.
  • Regs - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

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    However, those poor peripherals relying on the ATI SB450 are still suffering, not quite as much, but they do qualify for assistance.


    Examples of the peripherals that are suffering? Any one else want to fill me in?
  • Gary Key - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    The Firewire and Marvel Gigabit Ethernet controller are tied to the SB450. The performance of these items are sub-par compared to results on other boards. This is explained in the test detail sections and the final words recap. We have a new bios today that should bring the performance of both peripherals up to par with other boards that utilize this same components. However, there is nothing that can be done with the USB 2.0 performance although it really is not that bad. :)
  • JakeBlade - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    I find it amazing that this website can test a motherboard more thoroughly than the company who makes it. Pathetic.
  • highlnder69 - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

    You might want to fix the word mothergoard in the title to be motherboard..

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