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- Date:
- Tuesday , January 26, 2010
- Author:
- Daniel Dobrowolski
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ASUS Maximus III Gene Motherboard Review
The ASUS Maximus III Gene expands not only the Republic of Gamers product line, but the lineage of "Maximus" motherboards ASUS has created under the name. Thus far every Maximus board has been nothing short of excellent and even bordering on legendary, the Maximus III Gene continues this tradition.
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 quad 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 Maximus III Gene ties scores with the other Core i7 750 based test systems.
Lame 3.98.1
Another excellent showing for the Maximus III Gene.
WinRAR v3.80
Here we have nearly identical scores across the board for all similarly clocked test systems.
TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress v4.6.2.266
In this test the Maximus III Gene leads the pack of similarly clocked Core i5 test systems.
Videora IPod Converter
In this test we see excellent results once again.