| ASRock 780GXE/128MB - Performance |
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| Written by Jeff_Tom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, 12 October 2008 15:14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Here is our test system
Our test system was Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Catalyst 8.9 drivers.
We tested the transfer rates of our Western Digital 750GB to tested AMD's SB750 southbridge. We compared this board to the high-end Asus board with the SB750 chipset and 790FX Northbridge with no integrated video.
Pretty close but the Asus has a slight edge in hard drive tests.
Next we tested external USB 2.0 transfer rates with a WD Raptor hard drive.
Bit of a switch here in USB performance but nothing that can be accounted to variables in testing.
Next we tested game performance against Gigabyte's 780G motherboard.
So thanks to the high-clock of the sideport memory we see a very slight gain over the Gigabyte 780G motherboard.
Power consumption is up next. Idle measurements were taking at 5 minutes idle into Windows Vista desktop, load was measured with Valve's map creator benchmark which stresses all four cores. The Asus board was using a Radeon HD 4670 video card as it has no onobard graphics.
This shows clearly the potential power savings that onboard graphics offers. If you don't need higher-end 3D performance then a motherboard with integrated video is something you must seriously consider.
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