First Look: Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6

Written by Richard Swinburne

September 11, 2007 | 06:20

Tags: #bandwidth #benchmarks #chipset #dq6 #enthusiast #first #ga #lga775 #look #motherboard #performance #preview #review #x38

Companies: #gigabyte #intel #test

Gaming Performance:


Call of Duty 2

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe
  • nForce 680i SLI (P30 BIOS)
  • 95.4
  • 99.9
  • 80.2
0
25
50
75
100
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Call of Duty 2

1600x1200 2xAA 8xAF, Maximum Detail

  • Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe
  • nForce 680i SLI (P30 BIOS)
  • 48.8
  • 49.3
  • 38.5
0
10
20
30
40
50
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Quake 4

1024x768, 0xAF, 0xAA, Maximum Details

  • Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe
  • nForce 680i SLI (P30 BIOS)
  • 178.1
  • 166.3
  • 164.2
0
50
100
150
200
Frames Per Second - higher is better

Quake 4

1600x1200 2xAA 8xAF, Maximum Detail

  • Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe
  • nForce 680i SLI (P30 BIOS)
  • 88.3
  • 87.9
  • 88.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Frames Per Second - higher is better

It seems the only area Gigabyte needs to work on is gaming performance: it only pulls out ahead in low resolution Quake 4, but drops in the same Call of Duty 2. At high resolution there's very little between both DDR3 boards.

Obviously we'll have to wait until PCI-Express 2.0 graphics cards arrive to test if the extra bandwidth makes a difference, but the backward compatibility works efficiently in the mean time.
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