MSI K9AGM2-FIH AMD Motherboard
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Max Slowik
Beth
MSI
Nov. 26, 2007
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System Configuration
Motherboards
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H rev. 1.0 (690G/Radeon X1250)
MSI K9AGM2-FIH (690G/Radeon X1250)
Hardware
AMD Athlon X2 6000 3GHz dual core AM2 processor (Sponsored by AMD)
2x1Gb Mushkin DDR2-800 RAM (Sponsored by Mushkin)
Seagate 750gb SATA Barracuda HDD (Sponsored by Seagate)
PNY GeForce 8800 GTX XLR8 Overclocked Edition (Sponsored by PNY)
Scythe Mine heatsink
OS and Drivers
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (Sponsored by Microsoft)
ATI Catalyst 7.9
ForceWare 162.18
All benchmarks are performed three times, and the results averaged.
General Benchmarks
SiSoft Sandra Bandwidth
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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The memory was automatically detected as DDR2-800 with 3-5-7-9 timings on both boards.
7-Zip
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bzip |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
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seconds (lower is better)
2000
In a real-world test of number crunching, a folder with 518mb of various sized .wav files was compressed to .7z, using the efficient, CPU-hungry bzip2 compression algorithm.
SuperPi
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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sec (lower is better)
50
SuperPi
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2 Million Digits |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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sec (lower is better)
100
SuperPi
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4 Million Digits |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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sec (lower is better)
200
Rightmark 3D Sound 2.3 Audio Analyzer
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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CPU % (lower is better)
20
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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CPU % (lower is better)
20
Gigabyte 690G S2
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CPU % (lower is better)
20
This is a synthetic benchmarking utility that renders audio and measures the CPU load to simulate how much overhead the audio hardware puts on the system.
IOMeter
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Transfer Rate |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
IOMeter
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Response Time |
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MSI K9AGM2-FIH
Gigabyte 690G S2
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ms (lower is better)
50
IOMeter
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CPU Usage |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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CPU % (lower is better)
1.5
We have created a custom access spec that runs for a 10-minute duration and includes a mix of transfer modes.
Graphics Benchmarks
All effects were set to their lowest setting, and run at 1024x768 without anisotropic filtering or anti-aliasing.
3DMark06
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Integrated Video |
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8800 GTX |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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Integrated Video |
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8800 GTX |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
The de facto standard in synthetic video benchmarking.
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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Integrated Video |
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8800 GTX |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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Using our own timedemo, we test the deservedly ubiquitous DirectX 9.c Source Engine.
Prey
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Integrated Video |
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8800 GTX |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
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Integrated Video |
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8800 GTX |
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Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
Using our own timedemo, we test the ingeniously modified OpenGL Doom3 Engine.
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