ECS H55H-I Review: Mini-ITX at a Sensible Price
by Rajinder Gill on May 6, 2010 6:59 AM EST- Posted in
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Far Cry 2
Featuring fantastic visuals courtesy of the Dunia Engine, this game also features one of the most impressive benchmark tools we have seen in a PC game. For single GPU results we set the performance feature set to Very High, graphics to High, and enable DX10 with 2xAA.
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
We are big fans of the Warhammer franchise, especially Dawn of War II. One of the latest RTS games in our library is also one of the more demanding titles on both the CPU and GPU. We crank all options to Ultra, enable AA, and then run the built-in performance benchmark for our result.
AutoCAD 2010 x64—Cadalyst 2008
We utilize AutoCAD 2010 x64 and the Cadalyst Labs 5 benchmark.
For some reason the H55H-I holds a clear advantage in this benchmark.We've tried everything we can to reproduce these kind of scores on other boards and can't get close.
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Rajinder Gill - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link
I'll try and find out ASAP and report back if need be. I did hear this had happened on some H55 boards in the past (RAID cards in primary PEG slot triggering an IGP shut-off) - but am not sure if it was fixed via a BIOS update or not.later
Raja
kaborka - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - link
I don't understand why HTPC performance wasn't included in the review. Is the onboard graphics good enough for 1080P and BD decoding?Rajinder Gill - Sunday, May 9, 2010 - link
Hi,The Clarkdale IGP handles HD video playback fine. We do run HD video as part of the power consumption tests (although not as a benchmark).
regards
Raja
aaaaaa - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
Do you have any numbers for ECS H55H-I performance with Lynnfield processors?pvdw - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
PS/2 ports aren't needed since there are cheap adapters available that will support a ps/2 keyboard and mouse from one USB slot.rodders27_uk - Thursday, June 10, 2010 - link
You would be surprised how much still runs on ISA cards within industries, if you pay £15-20k per card for example, with 4-5 cards or more in a server, they can often outlast the underlying server hardware by 2-3 times. Companies just don't want to re-spend money like that when the card still works fine.Dopeyd - Monday, July 5, 2010 - link
Not sure if this was covered but I've noticed that sticking a raid cards in the PCIe for the mini-itx on H55 chipset have caused some systems to halt (gigabyte), have you been able to test this out on the ECS?