ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2 - HotHardware
HotHardware reviews the Intel945PL Express motherboard ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2 which supports the ATI CrossFire dual graphics solution. HotHardware gives this board a final score of 4 out of 5, writing in the conclusion:
While the 775XFire-eSATA2 performed quite well in all of our benchmarks, it exhibited a comparatively lower memory subsystem performance. This issue can be clearly seen in the 3DMark05 benchmarks we ran for CrossFire scalability testing. Since the 775XFire-eSATA2 is the first Intel 945PL Express motherboard we’ve tested, we cannot say if this is a characteristic of the scaled down chipset or motherboard optimization that’s lacking on ASRock’s part, but if the performance of the 775i915P-SATA2 was anything to judge by, it is likely a deliberate chipset limitation. After all, the Intel 945PL Express is a lesser version of the full-scale Intel 945P Express and such performance limitations are to be expected going by the past chipset performance numbers.
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