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- Date:
- Tuesday , November 17, 2009
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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GIGABYTE P55M-UD4 Motherboard Review
While this new GIGABYTE may look small, this micro-ATX wonder packs a punch and hits where it counts. The P55M-UD4 performs like the big boys, proving that size truly does not matter...for a motherboard.
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 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 P55M-UD4 tears through this benchmark, easily matching the performance of the other P55 based boards.
LAME 3.98.1
The P55M-UD4 continues its performance trend, showing the GIGABYTE did not skimp anywhere in designing this mighty mite.
WinRAR v3.90 B1
The P55M-UD4’s solid performance in this test indicates a strongly designed memory subsystem, given the fact that WinRAR tends to be very memory intensive in nature.
Videora IPod Converter v4.02
Again, the P55M-UD4 manages to stick with the pack, showing its tenacity in this intense conversion test.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS v4.6.2.266
As expected, the P55M-UD4 wraps up the multimedia benchmark tests superbly, managing another tight run with its competitors.