ECS KN1 SLI Extreme

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 18 Nov 2005.

  1. Tim S

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  2. Arkuden

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    good review. Other than the Lan problem... it looks to be a fairly solid board but I would still feel kinda iffy about getting it becuase of all the other well known and trusted names that are right at that price range as well. If it was a more competative price I think i would go for one.
     
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    2 40mm fans !?!?

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    thats got to sound awful
     
  4. Tim S

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    Yeah, it's quite loud on an open bench. It'd make sense if it had a heatsink above the PWMs and the 40mm fan running a little slower - it'd improve efficiency a little bit.
     
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    You can unscrew and completely remove the one on the IO at least but the NF4 one is to be expected, all NF4 mobos have that.
     
  6. Tim S

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    unless a heatpipe solution is implemented (like on ASUS and ABIT's latest boards).
     
  7. bigapl

    bigapl What's a Dremel?

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    Thats wierd about the 8X PCI-E mine runs full 16X with 6800 or 7800GT and 8X by 8X in SLI maybe there is a BIOS update you need?
     
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    No, there's no selector card so it's set to only run in 8x8 whether you have 1 card or 2.
    Heatpipes not only have to be invented in such a way so that they dont infringe on patents like ABITs OTES but they're also expensive compared to a fan :(
     
  9. bigapl

    bigapl What's a Dremel?

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    There must be a problem with that board I checked 2 other systems I have built with it and they are all running nat 16X with one card.
    I have read about 6 or 7 other reviews and yours seems to be the only board that does this 8X in single card mode.
     
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    Ive not got the board here now, but I checked NVIDIA's display control panel and it said x8 when in single card mode. There's no card or digital switch like the MSI SLI boards for selection either.

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  11. bigapl

    bigapl What's a Dremel?

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    Thats wierd it might be some sort of glitch I havent seen on this board before, so far I have had good luck with them and all mine run 16X.
    Did you get with ECS about that?
     
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    Did i discuss it with ECS? No. Because it has no selection method - digital or card switch like normal SLI I assumed ECS saved money and didnt include one but just hardwired it to always be in dual x8 mode. NVIDIA control panel confirmed this to me and I didnt think anything more of it.

    I didnt check it with any other drivers other than 71.89s, but what does your NV control panel say?
     
  13. bigapl

    bigapl What's a Dremel?

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    Mine says 16X with both the 6800 and the 7800GT and 8X in SLI maybe it is some sort of driver issue.
     
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    chrisuk What's a Dremel?

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    So why was this board not compared to any of these maufacturers? Surely that would have been more useful.
     
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    Because we arent provided with those boards. We have to use what we are given unfortunately :(

    bigapl - im gonna get in contact with ECS and ask them how their SLI switch works because it's beyond me as there's no physical evidence of a switch on it.
     
  16. Kipman725

    Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?!

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    nice looking board with less features I wouldent use. After fiddling with a lan party it's a very nice board but has so many features that the bios takes a few weeks to setup proporly.
     
  17. Tim S

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    We have a review of another SLI motherboard in this price range coming soon.
     
  18. Anakha

    Anakha Minimodder

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    As a comment on the "Computational error" with the SLI/Non-SLI results, here's an idea on how to get the best result.
    Run the same test 5 times, discard the top and bottom results, and average the remaining three. That way one-time statistical anomalies don't affect the outcome (As the worst and best are discarded to get a true "Average" result).

    I realise this will take a little extra time to do, but it will give you a more accurate result, and a result you can more easily compare with other results.

    Just my £0.02
     
  19. Tim S

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    That is a standard benchmarking practice as it is - ensure that all results are repeatable. ;)
     
  20. Guest-16

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    Because it's real world nothing is ever exact unlike a benchmark which is specifically designed for an uber accurate result. For things like the performance %age of WMP HD it's just windows cpu monitor is used and it's run for a while on loop and the most suitable average is taken. On other things that has human influence, like timing of the batch jpg/bmp encoding i take an average.
     
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