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Benchmark Results: Crysis And Far Cry 2

Extreme P55: Four LGA 1156 Motherboards Over $250
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Already several years old, we have yet to build a system that can overcome Crysis’ system demands at 2560x1600 and 8x anti-aliasing (AA). That makes this outdated game a solid benchmark application.

Asus and MSI have similar base clocks at 133.7 MHz, yet MSI falls to the bottom of our Crysis comparison at the CPU-dependent lower resolutions. This could be a system overhead issue or it could be caused by differences in the automatic configuration of advanced memory timings between different motherboard brands.

The motherboard with the slowest CPU base clock of 133.2 MHz, EVGA’s P55 Classified 200 still climbs to the top of the charts in Far Cry 2. Meanwhile, MSI’s Trinergy begins to set a trend by being around 2% slower than its competitors thus far.

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    Raptorial , 21 January 2010 16:25
    The only thing for me is: why did you not test 2 VGA cards? Two of the boards use a NF200 chip, now you won't see the results from this...

    Whyle this is why the EVGA and MSI are expensive.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the MSI P55-GD80 performs better with 1 VGA card then its expensive brother.
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    LePhuronn , 22 January 2010 04:18
    I'm still going 1366 simply because for what I do I prefer 12GB RAM over 8GB - that's honestly the only reason now.
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    Anonymous , 23 January 2010 20:26
    You should have tested this against a 150$ board and a 50$ board. That would have been interesting.
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    Redsnake77 , 28 January 2010 20:20
    When are you gonna do the three card crossfire / SLI review comparing the msi and evga P55 boards with X58? There's seems little relevance to reviewing these cards at all without including a 3 card metric, as that is their primary function. You wouldn't spend double the amount on either of these two boards otherwise.