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- Date:
- Tuesday , July 06, 2010
- Author:
- Daniel Dobrowolski
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Motherboard Review
ASUS' latest AM3 offering promises to be at least an interesting one. Not only does it feature USB 3 and SATA 6Gbps support, it also offers the lowest cost of entry into the world of quad core computing with support for a Core Unlocker. All with an 890GX chipset with integrated graphics as well.
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 dual 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
DiVX performance is right where we expected it to be.
Lame 3.98.1
M4A89GTD PRO/USB3's performance in Lame is pretty good and within a stone's throw of the Core i5 750 based test systems.
WinRAR v3.80
For whatever reason the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 falls behind even the older 790FX based system.
TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress v4.6.2.266
Again the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 delivers reasonable performance.
Videora IPod Converter
Again we see the M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 lag behind the Intel based systems.