Published: April 27, 2009 |
Source:
DFI |
Author:
Rich Weatherstone
DFI X58 T3H6 JR mATX Motherboard
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SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.
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SuperPI is the benchmark of choice for many overclockers. It’s lightweight to download and can give a quick indication on how good a system is at number crunching. Once again, testing was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.
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PassMark is a popular benchmarking suite which test all aspect of PC hardware.The CPU test examines Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more. Each CPU test was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.
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Results Analysis
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Sisoft Sandra and SuperPI showed little difference between all of the motherboards. Passmark however, showed a deficiency that IÂ simply could not explain. The odd result was echoed in the 5 times I ran it which was even more baffling, hopefully this is just a blip on the DFI’s radar which can be rectified in the following tests…