ASRock publishes Performance Comparison of Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi MB with 780i SLI MB (with 3-Way SLI)

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Performance Comparison of Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi MB with 780i SLI MB (with 3-Way SLI)

Test Item	Configuration 1	Configuration 2
Motherboard	Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi	NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI ref. MB
Chipset	NVIDIA® nForce 680i SLI	NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI
CPU	Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550
RAM	DDR2 800 1GB * 2
ADD-on card	ASUS EN8800GTX/HDTP/768M * 3 (3-Way SLI)
HDD	SATAII 160G

Test items	Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi	NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI ref. MB
3DMark 03 Build360	69222	69077
3DMark 05 Build130	19027	18068
3DMark 06 Build110	15717	14812

Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi

NVIDIA^® nForce 780i SLI ref. MB

Here are Penryn1600SLIX3-WiFi brief specifications:

• LGA 775 for Intel^® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium^® Dual Core / Celeron^®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors
• All Solid Capacitor design
• NVIDIA^® nForce 680i SLI Chipset
• Compatible with all FSB1600/1333/1066/800MHz CPUs
• Supports Dual Channel DDR2 800/667/533 x 4 DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 8GB
• Supports NVIDIA^® SLI™ and 3-Way SLI™
• 3 x PCI Express x16 slots (white @ x16 mode, yellow @ x8 mode)
• Supports Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
• Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
• 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD and RAID 5), NCQ and "Hot Plug" functions
• 1 x eSATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector, supports NCQ and "Hot Plug" functions
• 1 x WiFi/E header
• 7.1 CH Windows^® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio with Content Protection, supports DAC with 110dB dynamic range (ALC890 Audio Codec), DTS (Digital Theater Systems)
• Supports ASRock OC Tuner
• Windows^® Vista™ Premium 2007 Logo Ready
• Bundle: 1 x ASRock WiFi-802.11g Module 1 x Antenna, 1 x ASRock SLI Bridge and 1 x ASRock 3-Way SLI Bridge
• ASRock WiFi_eSATAII I/O Plus : 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 1 x eSATAII port