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AMD 690 Chipset
We'd like to thank Foxconn for providing us with their MCP61SM2MA motherboard for testing purposes on such short notice.
Test Setup Motherboards
Hardware
OS and Drivers
All benchmarks have been performed three times, and the results averaged. General Benchmarks SiSoft Sandra memory benchmarks The memory was automatically detected as DDR2-900 with 3-5-7-9 timings on both boards
SiSoft Sandra
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6567
5992
0
Points
10000
6553
6002
0
Points
10000
Here we see the RS690 board pull ahead with nearly 10% greater memory bandwidth. 7-Zip In a real-world test of number crunching, a folder with 518mb of various sized .wav files was compressed to .7z, with an Ultra compression level using the LZMA compression method, 64MB dictionary, and a word size of 64
7-Zip
406
446
0
Seconds
1000
Again we see RS690 outperform MCP61 by nearly 10%. SuperPI Unfortunately, SuperPI would not, not, not run on this motherboard. Perhaps it's the early nature of the BIOS, the drivers, or both, but it inexplicably failed on all SuperPI runs greater than 32K. The board was otherwise completely stable, and ran two instances of Orthos (Prime95x4) for hours without breaking 45°C on the CPU and 40°C on the chipset. As soon as some updates are released we will re-test this board and compare it to the MCP61 chipset. IOMeter We have created a custom access spec which runs for a 10 minute duration and includes a mix of transfer modes.
IOMeter
42.82
42.44
0
MB/s
80
IOMeter
.84
.89
0
% CPU
30
IOMeter
23.56
23.35
0
ms
50
The Foxconn board pulls ahead with technically better results using SATA drives, but the difference is so minute as to be indiscernible without a utility. RightMark 3DSound 2.3 This is a synthetic benchmarking utility that renders audio and measures CPU usage throughout.
SiSoft Sandra
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3.94
2.11
0
% CPU
30
9.14
7.41
0
% CPU
30
9.19
7.19
0
% CPU
30
The ASUS' HD audio uses slightly more CPU time than Foxconn's, but is still within reason.
Page 1: Introduction, About the RS690
Page 2: Board Layout, Bundle & Extras Page 3: General Benchmarks Page 4: Graphics Benchmarks, Overclocking Page 5: Conclusion 
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