Gigabyte EX58-UD5 X58 Motherboard
Multimedia/Encoding Benchmarks
Published: 5th January 2009 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £218.49 |
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.
ViMark is the latest addition to the OC3D motherboard testing process and a relatively new benchmarking application in general. Designed to take the inaccuracies and guesswork out of measuring the time taken to encode video files, ViMark produces easily comparable and consistent results for encoding raw video into Windows Media, Quicktime, AVI and Gif formats. As always, a total of 5 benchmark runs were performed with the highest and lowest scores removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 scores.
7-Zip is an open source Winzip-style file compression utility that has the ability to compress and decompress many file formats including its own .7z compression scheme. 7-Zip also comes complete with its own benchmarking utility for gauging the compression and decompression speed of the system that it is installed on.
Results Observations
Mirroring the hard drive benchmarks, both the Gigabyte and Asus boards run very closely together but this time both are just pipped to the post by the MSI which appears to have a very slight advantage when it comes to multimedia encoding and compressing.
Let's move on to our 3D Benchmarks...
Mirroring the hard drive benchmarks, both the Gigabyte and Asus boards run very closely together but this time both are just pipped to the post by the MSI which appears to have a very slight advantage when it comes to multimedia encoding and compressing.
Let's move on to our 3D Benchmarks...
Most Recent Comments
We got performance figures of these vS 775 setups ? I can'`t remember.
Either way, £218 is still taking the pish imo. These are the emerging mobos that will see revisions l8r in the year, and to charge over even £200 for them is beyond.
They figuring they can price match Foxconn or summit ?
Tis a shame, cos it does appear a great mobo from the review, but I have to be honest, being as i7 doesn`t do leaps and bounds over a 775, I for one aint gonna pay over the odds to get them.Quote
Either way, £218 is still taking the pish imo. These are the emerging mobos that will see revisions l8r in the year, and to charge over even £200 for them is beyond.
They figuring they can price match Foxconn or summit ?
Tis a shame, cos it does appear a great mobo from the review, but I have to be honest, being as i7 doesn`t do leaps and bounds over a 775, I for one aint gonna pay over the odds to get them.Quote
Nice review webbo. I'm really liking the look of this board and the price/colour scheme may now see me acquire one in the future.Quote
Rasta, I totally agree with you and I refuse to pay that kind of money for a motherboard. Anyhoo, don't know how many of you know but there are some P55 motherboards coming out some time this year which hopefully will be around normal prices. I expect they will be similar like the P35 and the X38 for pricing strategies?Quote
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Personally the only bug I've found is the CPU multiplier in the F3 bios: I couldn't lower the CPU multiplier.
Oh and one question: how did you save the bios?