Vadim Fusion LQX Intel-775G2

Testing Methods:

With the exception of SiSoft Sandra, all of our benchmarks have been engineered to give you numbers that you are likely to find useful when actually using the products we have evaluated in the real world.

We are also focusing a lot more of our time on evaluating the stability of the motherboards (and platforms) using a stress test designed to highlight any of the potential weaknesses that the product may have. That involves a gradually increasing amount of stress starting with Prime95 and expanding to IOMeter and an endless loop of Far Cry loop if all is well. This is to ensure that all parts of the system are stressed simultaneously over a period of time.

We believe that the consumer is never likely to subject their platform to this level of stress and we are not expecting every product to complete an entire extended stress test. However, most poorly engineered products fail within the first couple of hours, or even minutes, allowing us to make a conscious decision on whether a motherboard (or platform) is worth your money, regardless of how well it performs in our benchmarks.

Test Setup:

Systems:

• Vadim Fusion LQX Intel-775G2;
  
• Commodore XX Gaming PC;

Yes, the Commodore is about £1,300 less expensive and differently specced however we want to demonstrate partly what the difference in cost can buy you in terms of performance. The Commodore did include a custom case finish as well as well as an extra 8800 GTX for SLI, however its CPU was clocked lower.