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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. Graphics Benchmarks Although neither board is specifically designed with gaming in mind, that hardly means that no gaming will take place on them. All effects were set to their lowest setting, and run at 1024x768 without anisotropic filtering or anti-aliasing. 3DMark06 The de facto standard in synthetic video benchmarking.
3DMark
378
301
0
3DMarks
1000
3DMark
6404
5972
0
3DMarks
10000
Here we see that the X700 core of the X1200, though dated, is still better than the current onboard video champ, beating it by 25%. To boot, with a discrete video card, the AMD chipset does better by over seven percent. Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Using our own timedemo, we test the deservedly ubiquitous DirectX 9.c Source Engine
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
35
25
0
Frames per second
60
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
131
127
0
Frames per second
180
Using the onboard video, the RS690 plays HL2, with the graphics on low, almost agreeably. That doesn't sound like much, but it's certainly unheard of. The same chipset also beats out the competition by a few percent. Prey Using our own timedemo, we test the ingeniously modified OpenGL Doom3 Engine.
Prey
12
12
0
Frames per second
60
Prey
166
156
0
Frames per second
180
Neither chipset can really deliver the frames in Prey, but the RS690 wins with a discrete graphics card. Overclocking No overclocking options were available to us with this board, hopefully because of the early build. I should expect this chipset to deliver overclocking down the road, if only because of how damn cool it runs: even under the worst stress-testing, the chipset stayed under 40°C.
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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