MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard
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.
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
Being heavily CPU dependant, the multimedia and encoding results showed that when the CPU is overclocked, significant gains are to be had. Given that the MSI P55-GD80 can give you instant 1GHz overclock (CPU dependant) this sort of performance increase is definitely worthwhile and should keep those new to overclocking very happy indeed.
Let’s move on to our synthetic 3D Benchmarks…
