ASUS E35M1-M Pro Review - Anyone For Fusion?
by Brendan van Varik on October 25, 2011 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Asus
- Motherboards
- Fusion
- E-350
3D Movement Algorithm Test
The algorithms in 3DPM employ both uniform random number generation or normal distribution random number generation, and vary in various amounts of trigonometric operations, conditional statements, generation and rejection, fused operations, etc. The benchmark runs through six algorithms for a specified number of particles and steps, and calculates the speed of each algorithm, then sums them all for a final score. This is an example of a real world situation that a computational scientist may find themselves in, rather than a pure synthetic benchmark. The benchmark is also parallel between particles simulated, and we test the single thread performance as well as the multi-threaded performance.
During the single threaded testing, this motherboard was the fastest but it did not fare too well in the multithreaded environment after repeated tests. However both tests are well within statistical variance.
WinRAR x64 3.93
With 64-bit WinRAR, we compress the set of files used in the USB speed tests. WinRAR x64 3.93 attempts to use multithreading when possible.
The ASUS E35M1-M PRO is currently the fastest Fusion motherboard in our WinRAR test.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.2
FastStone Image Viewer is a free piece of software I have been using for quite a few years now. It allows quick viewing of flat images, as well as resizing, changing color depth, adding simple text or simple filters. It also has a bulk image conversion tool, which we use here. The software currently operates only in single-thread mode, which should change in later versions of the software. For this test, we convert a series of 170 files, of various resolutions, dimensions and types (of a total size of 163MB), all to the .gif format of 640x480 dimensions.
The result of 219 seconds is the second fastest we have for A50M.
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frilans - Saturday, December 3, 2011 - link
Sandy Bridge can be passively cooled to safe temperatures under load. We have Intel Core i3-2105 (TDP 65W) processors in our office computers. I have built them with no moving parts in the H3.S case with passive cooling from HD-Plex (www.hd-plex.com)./Chris
duploxxx - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
much cheaper? the lowest priced mobo and the lowest price celeron will only get you in the same price range.not to mention the way higher TDP and I would love to see some GPU performance compares.
medi01 - Sunday, October 30, 2011 - link
SB celeron + motherboard is NOT "much cheaper than this APU".Stop spreading FUD, Intel fanboi.
plonk420 - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - link
you can take the fan off just fine. ran for half a day like that.just to be nice, i put a PWM 120mm fan over it in the htpc case. can't hear it nor the PCP&C Silencer currently over my fridge running across the room.
davos555 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
It is good for basic tasks - However I had one and it stuggles to play back HD video content - the hardware decoding doesn't work in linux media players because of lack of drivers. Apparantly it works best in Windows media players such as MPC but I havent test this!spaceyyeti - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
use xbmc. works great for me.C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
Yeah, SB will get much more ppd if you are crunching BOINC.futurepastnow - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
Great board for HTPC- unless you want to play modern 3D games on your TV. Then you'll need to step up to something with more CPU and graphics power.Also looks like it would be great for a home server, or a family member who only surfs the web and watches videos (that covers a lot of people).
mepenete - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - link
runnin AMD for graphics? Nothin but trouble if you're in Linux.gevorg - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
Couple of questions:1) Can this thing FLAWLESSLY play high bitrate HD 1080p from a hard drive or blu-ray disk?
2) How good is the 23.976 playback?