What About Games?
It would be a shame if the ECS Black Series X58B-A couldn’t keep up on the gaming side. Using some of our favorite benchmarking titles, we went to work to see whether this board was just as capable as others we’ve reviewed.
Crysis
This is the game where a platform’s circuits meets the extreme. Though frame rates can rise and fall like the stock market, it still wasn’t enough to be a problem for any of the X58 platforms including the ECS Black Series X58B-A.
Farcry 2
After a quick stroll through the African country side, the scores are very similar and not far enough apart to matter, especially to a budget gamer. Farcry 2 sure is a nice looking “eye candy” game and it will be on this board as well.
World at War
The ECS Black Series X58B-A blew through the WaW benchmark with ease. Even the game’s massive, graphically intense fighting scenes aren’t enough to slow it down. It stands toe to toe with its costlier cousins.
Left 4 Dead
Again, the ECS X58B-A continues to keep up. The results here are rounded to the nearest whole number. For those nitpickers out there, results are really 1 to 1.5 frames per second different between all three boards.
Now let’s move on to some overclocking and wrap up this review with a tidy little bow shall we?