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Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H AMD Motherboard
 
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 Max Slowik
Beth
Gigabyte
Dec. 3, 2007
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
(Show All Graphs)
Float Integer
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
8550
8480
0
MB/s
12000
 
 
Float Integer
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
8599
8443
0
MB/s
12000
 
 
The memory was automatically detected as DDR2-800 with 3-5-7-9 timings on both boards.

7-Zip
bzip
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
1277
1301
0
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
1 Million Digits
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
28.81
29.06
0
sec (lower is better)
50
 
 
SuperPi
2 Million Digits
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
66.83
67.98
0
sec (lower is better)
100
 
 
SuperPi
4 Million Digits
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
146.16
148.66
0
sec (lower is better)
200
 
 
Rightmark 3D Sound 2.3 Audio Analyzer
(Show All Graphs)
2D 3D 3D+EAX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
1.78
1.9
0
CPU % (lower is better)
20
 
 
2D 3D 3D+EAX
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
Gigabyte 690G S2
8.21
8.26
0
CPU % (lower is better)
20
 
 
2D 3D 3D+EAX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
8.19
8.25
0
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
Transfer Rate
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
42.95
42.08
0
MB/s
75
 
 
IOMeter
Response Time
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
Gigabyte 690G S2
23.4
23.45
0
ms (lower is better)
50
 
 
IOMeter
CPU Usage
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
0.77
0.78
0
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
(Show All Graphs)
Integrated Video 8800 GTX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
398
377
0
3DMarks
13000
 
 
Integrated Video 8800 GTX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
10726
10625
0
3DMarks
13000
 
 
The de facto standard in synthetic video benchmarking.

Half-Life 2 Episode 1
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Integrated Video 8800 GTX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
14
12
0
FPS
200
 
 
Integrated Video 8800 GTX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
141
137
0
FPS
200
 
 
Using our own timedemo, we test the deservedly ubiquitous DirectX 9.c Source Engine.

Prey
(Show All Graphs)
Integrated Video 8800 GTX
Gigabyte 690G S2
MSI K9AGM2-FIH
36
33
0
FPS
250
 
 
Integrated Video 8800 GTX