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ECS PN1 SLI2 Extreme Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) |
| Product: | ECS PN1 SLI2 Extreme |
| Date: | Wed, Dec 27, 2006 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Jason Petermann - |
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POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 13a
Processor Performance on Pov-Ray 3.7 Beta 13a:The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team) in their spare time. It is an high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file, and by using the shape or material name in your scene. Since this is free software feel free to download this version and try it out on your own.
The most significant change from the end-user point of view between versions 3.6 and 3.7 is the addition of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support, which in a nutshell allows the renderer to run on as many CPU's as you have installed on your computer. This will be particularly useful for those users who intend purchasing a dual-core CPU or who already have a two (or more) processor machine. On a two-CPU system the rendering speed in some scenes almost doubles. For our benchmarking we used version 3.7 as all of the processors we are testing today are dual-core.
Once rendering on the object we selected was completed, we took the score from dialog box, which indicates the average PPS for the benchmark. A higher PPS indicates faster system performance.
The 975XAB takes the win over ECS here in the POV-Ray CPU and Render testing, though not by much.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - ECS, Core 2 Duo, and Extreme. Do they all fit together?
Page 2 - Board Layout Page 3 - Bundle and BIOS Page 4 - Test Setup Page 5 - SiSoft; Sandra 2007 Page 6 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 13a Page 7 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing Page 8 - ScienceMark 2.0 Page 9 - Super PI Mod v1.5 Page 10 - CineBench 9.5 Page 11 - WinRar v3.61 Page 12 - RightMark Audio Analyer Page 13 - Hd Tach 3 Page 14 - 3dmark2006 Page 15 - F.E.A.R. Page 16 - Overclocking Results Page 17 - Final Thought and Conclusion |
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