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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 22, 2009
- Author:
- Daniel Dobrowolski
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Motherboard Review
The Gigabyte EX58-UD3R represents a budget X58 motherboard, if there is such a thing. While the feature set is somewhat limited when compared to other more robust X58 boards, the EX58-UD3R's performance and overclockability is anything but limited.
Multimedia Benchmarks
Outside of gaming and encoding, there are few applications on the desktop that will push our systems to their limits. Especially when we start talking about dual core processors that are becoming the norm now days. Some encoding apps are really starting to shine and become usable by the masses.
The benchmarks below all represent very real world situations just like you would run into at home while encoding video from your camcorder - or while using a picture editing program - or while encoding music for your iPod - or making movies with something as simple as Windows Movie Maker - or encoding a DVD for saving it to your hard drive to allow you easier access to the content.
We have simply timed our various tests on the different systems and supplied you with the amount of time it took for the system to fully build the file. Scratch disks were used properly as well as making sure we were not bumping into any IO bottlenecks elsewhere.
Graphs are labeled as follows: Motherboard - CPU Clock - FSB Clock - Memory Clock
DivX Converter 6.6.1 Pro Codec 6.8.4
In this test, we see identical results from all the Core i7 systems. With that said they smack the Core 2 Duo down mightily.
Lame 3.98.1
In this test the EX58-UD3R ties with the other Core i7 systems.
WinRAR v3.80
Again we see the EX58-UD3R fall just a bit behind the rest of the Core i7 test systems.
Videora IPod Converter
The EX58-UD3R falls slightly behind, but doesn't do too badly here.