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- Date:
- Monday , August 17, 2009
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ASUS P6T7 WS SuperComputer
ASUS' latest X58 chipset motherboard from its extremely popular workstation board series, the P6T7 WS SuperComputer is poised to impress many folks looking for more PCIe lanes than the next guy.
Multimedia Benchmarks
Outside of gaming and encoding, there are few applications on the desktop that will push our systems to their limits, this especially becomes apparent when we start talking about multi-core processors that are now the norm. Some multi-thread aware encoding and editor applications are starting to reach into all available threads and truly utilize the processing power of these multi-core CPUs.
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 or video editing program - or while encoding music for your iPod - or encoding a DVD for saving it to your hard drive to allow you easier access to the content. Also we have included a WinRAR, a very popular zipping used by many when sending files or posting for download.
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 Type & Clock Speed - Memory Speed
DivX Converter 7.0
The P6T7 WS SuperComputer board manages to easily stick with the other boards, opening the multimedia benchmarking with a clean bill of health.
LAME 3.98.1
The P6T7 WS SuperComputer’s audio abilities come through well in this benchmark, demonstrating that the board subsystems a working together without issue.
WinRAR v3.90 B1
Another notch in the belt for the P6T7 WS SuperComputer board. Good performance in this benchmark is crucial, indicating a well designed memory subsystem, especially in light of the memory intensive nature of this benchmark.
Videora IPod Converter v4.02
Yet again, the P6T7 WS SuperComputer steps up to the challenge. This actually marks the first "winning" benchmark for the P6T7.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS v4.6.2.266
The P6T7 WS SuperComputer closes out the multimedia benchmarks as strongly as it started them. And yet again the P6T7 squeaks out a win even over the power P6T6 brother.