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- Date:
- Tuesday , June 15, 2010
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
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ASUS P6X58D Premium Motherboard Review
ASUS has taken its new Intel X58 chipset based motherboard to the next level, integrating support for Intel's Core i7 six core processors, SATA 6Gbps drive support, and USB 3.0 support. Just how well will this board fare in this overly competitive market space?
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
While this DivX application is somewhat threaded, it is not optimized to truly take advantage of our 6 Core processor and this is why we see little benefit over the 4 Core processor.
LAME 3.98.1
Lame is an application that is very much single threaded and we again see our 980X processor take a small lead due to raw clock speed.
WinRAR v3.90 B1
While WinRAR relies on memory bandwidth, we see clock speed and number of cores still give us an overall benefit.
Videora IPod Converter v4.02
Videora is heavily threaded and better optimized for threading than DivX and we see good scaling with this program but no doubt it could be better.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS v4.6.2.266
Lastly we again see threading come into play, but not near perfect scaling.
Again, we see the motherboard performing as it should with this new 6 Core model 980X processor.