Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard, Part 2
by Rajinder Gill on February 22, 2010 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Sorenson 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 Sharkoon's USB 3.0 QuickPort with a 1TB Western Digital hard drive and transfer a 1GB and file from a 1TB HDD connected to the Intel PCH.
We've got a couple of stragglers in this test on the USB 2.0 interface; it seems BIOSTAR and MSI have some work to do on the USB side of operation. The general consensus is that USB 3.0 transfer times are around 10 seconds per gigabyte, while USB 2 delivers an average time of 36~40 seconds per GB. We did try some larger transfers and the scaling is fairly close to linear; a 6GB file transfer takes around 3mins 50 seconds on USB 2.0, while USB 3.0 manages the same file in 1 minute 16 seconds. Although the gains provided by the USB 3.0 interface are obvious, external drives only benefit if you use them for reading/writing large files or making complete drive images; random reads/writes are bottlenecked by the HDD seek times and USB latency.
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ltcommanderdata - Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - link
I don't know if you are still monitoring this article's comments, but I was wondering if you have any idea if the latest Gigabyte H57M-USB3 F5 BIOS fixes the AHCI problems you were reporting? I am looking for a mATX motherboard with USB 3.0 and this motherboard with it's PCIe x4 slot that could be useful for a future USB 3.0/6Gps SATA expansion card seems like a good option if it's niggling issues have been worked out.RadMos - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - link
The ECS H55H-V1.0, convince me. It has the best price and everything I need. A PC for my wife, is economic and profitable MB. It is not behind the other more expensive solutions. I just have to choose the correct CPU.hq5 - Friday, April 30, 2010 - link
How to modify the registry after installation to enable AHCI drivers on Gigabyte H57M-USB3 ?thx
taipeidman - Monday, June 14, 2010 - link
Hi Rajinder,Do you know the difference between the two fabrication revisions?
As a solution provider, I'm in direct contact with Gigabyte sales in my region.
They tell me:
"We have an unique power design of USB port to charge iphone/ipad from S1 to S5 mode. Rev. 2.0 one improves the convenience. But I ensure there is no difference of functions.
Please consider this a running change."
however, as a hardware Engineer, I see 1.0 -> 2.0 as a major revision increment, as opposed of 1.0 ->1.1.
If you look at the pictures of the GA-H57-USB3 rev1 and rev2 you can see a different IC (upper left of picture) installed on the boards between the revisions.
rev1 - http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/product-page.a...
- http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/fileupload/product/2/33...
rev2 - http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/product-page.a...
- http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/fileupload/product/2/34...
I'm asking here, if anyone knows...
I don't have the board in hand yet and the sales tells me he will supply a rev1 board.
This is why I'm asking
any thoughts?
if you still have the GA-H57M-USB3 on hand what revision do you have and can you tell me the
chip part number (just under the "Designed in Taiwan" on the upper left of the picture)
Taipeidman...
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