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- Date:
- Tuesday , November 24, 2009
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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MSI P55-GD65 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review
MSI’s latest Intel P55 based board looks to be cut from the same mold as its big brother P55-GC80 motherboard. The GD65 is mean, lean, and ready to rumble. While it does not pack in all the features of the GD80, the GD65 does not act like a $155 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 P55-GD65 starts off the multimedia benchmarks strong, matching performance with the other P55 systems easily.
LAME 3.98.1
Again, we see the P55-GD65 performing as it should in this intensive audio conversion benchmark.
WinRAR v3.90 B1
The P55-GD65’s matching performance here is critical, indicating that the memory subsystem is operating efficiently given the memory intensive nature of WinRAR.
Videora IPod Converter v4.02
The P55-GD65 maintains its performance streak, managing another photo finish with its P55 brethren.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS v4.6.2.266
The P55-GD65 closes out the multimedia benchmarks on a high note, illustrating the quality that MSI poured in to this board.