General Performance, 3D Graphics & Encoding

General Performance

General Performance

General Performance

The patterns in the General Performance PCMark05 are exactly what we would expect, with the GeForce6150 holding a small lead over both the NVIDIA 6100 and the ATI RS482. This certainly fits the positioning of the chipsets and the market segments at which they are aimed.

The same cannot be said for the 3DMark benchmarks. We retested several times because we didn't believe our results at first, and even did a complete fresh install, and went so far as to run benchmarks with the earler 81.26/81.33 drivers and optimized profiles for each benchmark. No matter what we did, 3DMark05 and 3DMark03 were lower on the Asus A8N-VM than on either the Biostar 6100 or the ATI RS482. Perhaps the Biostar BIOS is better optimized for the 3DMark benchmarks. Whatever the reason, the 3DMarks do not correlate well with our other real-world tests.

MPEG-4 Encoding Performance - 'Sum of All Fears' Ch. 9

Meida Encoding performance is almost completely dependent on the CPU. This is particularly true with the AMD processor as the memory controller is part of the processor package. Here we see the performance with the same 4000+ remains virtually the same as other encoding results with the same chip. This demonstrates again that the video subsystem, in this case GeFroce 6150 Integrated Graphics, has no impact on media encoding performance.

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  • formulav8 - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link

    Speak for yourself.
  • jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    What are the chances that this is not Asus' HTPC motherboard?

    Could they be developing another model for a home theater PC? -- If so, will it use the nVidia chipset?

    As much as I want to use this board for my HTPC, I have to examine why Asus would not have - at the very minimum, included a spidif cable and TV out cable.

    Something just doesn't fit in this picture.

    -John
  • Calin - Friday, December 2, 2005 - link

    I would like to have game performance compared to a single channel board using one of the current integrated graphic chipsets - there is a Biostar board for Socket 754 and a Asrock one. Or at least to have performance checked with a single DIMM (or two DIMMs in single channel mode)
    Thanks
  • jamawass - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    Poor implementation of a good idea by Asus.This chipset screams htpc, why have HD audio without out of the box spdif? Might as well have realtek audio. The S video out should also be standard with an optional component out dongle for those who need it. Add-on brackets take up pci openings on the case, quite a few htpc cases are microatx where these slots are a premium.
  • ShadowVlican - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    aw man.... if only this board can OC...
  • jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    According to the picture of the motherboad the board you tested was 1.01.

    However, I just read that there is a 2.0 rev board. Are you aware of this? Do you know if this is accurate?

    I can't find anything about this on the Asus site and would like to know about this before I get the final piece (motherboard/video) for my HTPC upgrade.

    Thanks for the quick review, and I too would like to know more about it's CPU utilization during DVD and HDTV playback.

    Again, thank you.

    -John
    PS. and if I missed it, what was the BIOS revision you used for your tests.
  • Gary Key - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    quote:

    PS. and if I missed it, what was the BIOS revision you used for your tests.


    AMI 0506
  • plonk420 - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    may we see HL2 and MPEG2/WMV9 decoding benchmarks, please, Anand? also, how does one go about purchasing the addon card, and is it S-Video only, or is there hope for component out?
  • BigLan - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    Does the nvidia firewall actually work on this board, or does it corrupt zip archives as have been reported with the nforce4?
  • Leper Messiah - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

    Performance is mediocore, features missing, can't OC. Guess I'll be sticking with a biostar 6100-T for my next F@H box.

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