Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6: Quad to the Extreme

Standard Gaming Performance

As usual, gaming performance was tested with a variety of current games. We ran benchmarks with our standard 1280x1024 resolution without antialiasing enabled (and generally without anisotropic filtering, though that varies by game). Given the number of users that run 19" LCDs these days, 1280x1024 represents one of the most commonly used resolutions. We could certainly increase the amount of eye candy being displayed in most of the games, but as this is a motherboard benchmark we aren't particularly interested in maxing out the graphics cards in our tests.





It's the same old song and dance but these results basically show that any of the chipsets listed will perform equally in today's games when equipped with the same GPU. We did not experience any issues during testing or during game play with the Gigabyte board. We generally play every game for at least a couple of hours on each board to ensure there are no issues such as overheating, stuttering, or network problems when playing on-line with various combinations of components.