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- Date:
- Monday , February 01, 2010
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 Motherboard Review
The X58A-UD7 is GIGABYTE\'s newest entry into the fiercely competitive LGA1366 board arena. The board packs a lot of promise, built on GIGABYTE\'s tried and true X58 based design with some nice bells and whistles added for that extra bit of appeal including USB 3.0 and SATA III features.
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 X58A-UD7 starts off the multimedia benchmarks strongly, easily matching the performance of the other X58 based board.
LAME 3.98.1
The X58A-UD7 continues its performance streak against the X58 competition.
WinRAR v3.90 B1
Yet again, the X58A-UD7 holds its own against the other competing X58 boards. Good performance in this test is crucial, since performance differences could illustrate issues in the memory bus implementation due the memory intensive nature of the WinRAR test.
Videora IPod Converter v4.02
The X58A-UD6 continues to chew through the conversion benchmarks, staying close to the performance of the other X58 based boards.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS v4.6.2.266
Closing out the multimedia testing on a high note, the X58A-UD7 manages a top spot.