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BFG nForce 4 Ultra Motherboard
Real-World Benchmarks
Half-Life 2 Our Half-Life 2 benchmark consists of a timedemo we recorded in the canals level (map d1_canals06). In this timedemo Gordon is in a boat and emerges from an enclosed area into a canal. He maneuvers through several obstacles and eventually comes across some enemies. Some Combine dropships fly by overhead and a couple of Combine soldiers on the ground fire their weapons. There is a lot of water in this scene. All of the in-game graphical settings were set to high. The "Reflections" drop down menu was set to "Reflect All. HDR was left enabled although our demo map doesn't support it. Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through a batch file which changes the in-game settings. After the batch has finished running, the average frames per second for each test is output to a file. For each test, the timedemo was run three times and the results were averaged. The batch file was also run with the -nosound option to gauge the performance impact of using the onboard sound for audio processing. As with the standard test, each settings combination was run three times and the score averaged.
Half-Life 2 @ 1024 x 768 (With Sound)
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120
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120
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120
Half-Life 2 @ 1024 x 768 (No Sound)
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120
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120
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120
Half-Life 2 @ 1600 x 1200 (With Sound)
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120
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120
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120
Half-Life 2 @ 1600 x 1200 (No Sound)
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120
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120
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120
The nForce4 Ultra is always just a couple frames behind the ECS in all resolutions and video modes. Both boards get a nice jump in framerate when the -nosound option is used. Doom 3 Doom 3 offers the ability to record and play back demos through the in-game console. We recorded a demo in the Delta1 level, mainly in the reactor core area. The demo includes open spaces with catwalks as well as narrow passageways, dark corridors and plenty of baddies for the fraggin'! We used a batch file to run our recorded demo as a time-demo and to specify in-game resolution, anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing settings. For each combination of resolution, AF and AA, the time-demo was run three times and the results were averaged.
Doom 3 @ 1024 x 768
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150
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150
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150
Doom 3 @ 1600 x 1200
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100
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100
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100
At 1024x768 with no AA/AF, the ECS has a noticeable edge in framerate. However, at other video modes and at 1600x1200, the two boards run neck and neck. WorldBench 5 WorldBench 5 uses popular retail applications to measure real-world performance in standard home and office tasks. Scores are relative to the performance of a high-end system (aka base system) that has been given a score of 100. A score of 50 indicates performance half that of the base system and 200 would indicate double the performance of the base system.
WorldBench 5
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Here, the BFG matches the performance of the WorldBench base system while the ECS board scores a single point higher.
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