ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte & MSI: Four Flagship X58 Motherboards Reviewed
by Rajinder Gill on July 15, 2010 10:00 PM ESTSorenson Squeeze 6
We are using Sorenson Squeeze to convert eight AVCHD videos into HD Flash videos for use on websites. This application heavily favors physical core count and processor clock speed.
WinRAR 3.9 x64
This benchmark compresses our AT workload consisting of a main folder that contains 954MB of files in 15 subfolders. The result is a file approximately 829MB in size.
Bibble 5.0
We utilize Bibble Labs' Bibble 5 v2 to convert 50 RAW image files into full size JPEG images with the program's default settings. This program is fully multithreaded and multi-core aware.
File Transfer to USB
In this test we use La Cie’s Rugged USB 3.0 500GB external hard drive and transfer a 1GB file from a 1TB HDD connected to the Intel ICH monitoring the time taken.
Not much to remark on here other than the EVGA Classified's slow USB 2 performance. The USB 3 supporting boards are tied transfering files of this size. USB 3 is not a killer feature just yet, however, there's certainly scope to make large backups and system images in the fraction of the time it would take to complete the process over USB 2.
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fausto412 - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - link
i don't think i've even see a $700 dollar motherboard. For that kind of money it better come with a hot super model to spend a few nights with the poor sap who spends that much.mrjminer - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - link
Actually, it ensures that you will not get a hot super model to spend a few nights with you.Taft12 - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
I could really use one of these. I can't remember the last time I had a night I didn't have to spend with a hot super model. Won't they please just let me game?!nbjknk - Thursday, November 25, 2010 - link
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Souka - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
Maybe Gigabyte's marketing dept. gets it advice from Apple?Charge more...people will think it's better... ;)
SunSamurai - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
Gigabyte doesnt have anything to offer that accounts for the extra cost, like OSX.hansmuff - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - link
The AOpen AK89-Max had this way before Gigabyte.What is commendable though is that Gigabyte puts this even on their lower-end boards. Great move.
silverblue - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
Sorry, but the Gigabyte BX2000 has that beat by a good few years.Fuchikoma - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - link
The branding of these motherboards are getting totally ridiculous and quite comical. What really annoys me about high-end mobos is that the manufacturer spends a lot of time making them aesthetically pleasing, which in turn you spend copious amounts of money, and yet their support software are absolutely horrendous - consisting of a bunch of bad GUI hacks.Powerlurker - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
As far as I can tell, most of these ultra-high-end consumer motherboards are targeted more at competitive benchmarkers than people who actually want to use their computers to do stuff.