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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eva2000 - Monday, July 19, 2010 - link
Shame bclk hasn't improved much with those sample boards. Interesting to see if you got 4 samples of each model and averaged their max bclk, how would each brand/board do.Rajinder Gill - Monday, July 19, 2010 - link
Probably the same as four samples from first gen boards.mapesdhs - Monday, July 19, 2010 - link
These prices do seem a bit wierd given there are dual-socket boads starting at around $300 (eg.
Tyan S7002G2NR-LE) though of course such boards don't boast RAM speeds or other features
that enthusiast boards have. On the other hand, a Tyan with two i7s is going to stomp all over
an enthusiast board with just one i7 for any task that can exploit the higher thread limit, eg. rendering,
scientific apps, etc.
Flip side of course is such boards don't normally support SLI/CF. All depends on what one wants
to use it for. A fair chunk of the enthusiast market might be bragging rights and downright fun, but
if there's a demand for such things (and there is) then what the heck. :)
Ian.
Zombie1914 - Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - link
Nice review as always.Could you post some infos on the temperatures of the Northbridge/Southbridge in standard and overclocking modes?
Triple Omega - Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - link
Google Translate much?Well at least your stuff doesn't cost $700.
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nyran125 - Thursday, August 19, 2010 - link
So far ive got a ASUS P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi and its outlasted everything and still running everything smooth 4 adn a hlaf years later with no issue and the ASUS video cards seem to be more vigilant and outlast the rest... This is from experience with various boards adn video cards and ive been happy with every ASUS product ive bought thus far.Rare.human - Sunday, October 3, 2010 - link
Hey guys, what's the best motherboard currently available that I could buy?Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - link
Very broad question that. Best X58 board you mean? Typically don't spend more than $250 and you'll get what you need - ASUS & Gigabyte is where I'd personally go from a BIOS standpoint in that price range. If you don't want to overclock, then ASRock, Biostar and EVGA and MSI will do the job too.-Raja