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Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Motherboard
Testing Methodology
We bench using Windows XP Service Pack 2, and the latest motherboard and video card drivers. The video driver settings are left at default and transparency-sampling anti-aliasing are left off. We try to use our own timedemos whenever possible, but will use the in-game timedemo or record a few minutes of gameplay using FRAPS if that's not an option. All in-game effects were set to their lowest setting, and the games tested at 1024x768 without anisotropic filtering or anti-aliasing, to highlight general throughput and minimize GPU bottlenecking. All benchmarking results are the average of at least three runs per setting. In some instances, if we've deemed a game unplayable with a card at a certain setting, we've recorded the score as a 0. In this review, we'll be comparing the GA-P31-DS3L (Intel P31) to: An Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP (Intel P35) An Asus P5W-VM (Intel G965) A Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33) And a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H(AMD 690G) Test Computer Specifications Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0GHz (690G only) Memory: Mushkin Enhanced DDR2 800 @ 4-4-3-10 (Sponsored by Mushkin Video Card: PNY XLR8 8800GTX (Sponsored by PNY Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1000 (Sponsored by Thermaltake) Operating System: Windows XP Professional w/ SP2 (Sponsored by Microsoft) Benchmarks SiSoft Sandra SiSoft’s memory benchmark may be a little quick-and-dirty, but it’s popular and does a good job of predicting overall application performance. The bandwidth results are in MB/seconds, and higher is better.
SiSoft Sandra Bandwidth
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8599
5340
5244
5114
5011
0
MB/s
12000
8550
5426
5331
5236
4977
0
MB/s
12000
7-Zip Bzip 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. Results are in seconds, and lower is better.
7-Zip
1277
1280
1290
1312
1390
0
seconds (lower is better)
2000
SuperPI Mod 1.5 SuperPI Mod is an application that’s driven competitive overclocking around the world, for proving that one system can count to pi faster than all the others. Its results are in seconds, and lower is better.
SuperPi
21.09
21.11
21.53
22.6
28.81
0
sec (lower is better)
50
SuperPi
49.8
50
51.03
53.58
66.83
0
sec (lower is better)
100
SuperPi
113.41
114.18
116.36
122.18
146.16
0
sec (lower is better)
200
x264 Benchmark This test transcodes an MPEG-2 clip into an HD x264 clip five times and tabulates the results as FPS. It’s designed for multi-core processors and accurately measures video processing speeds. The two results are in FPS, and higher is better.
x264
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79.09
71.1
70.59
70.13
67.23
0
FPS
100
19.45
17.11
17.07
16.97
16.3
0
FPS
100
RightMark 3DSound 2.3 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. Results are % of CPU used, and lower is better.
Rightmark 3D Sound 2.3 Audio Analyzer
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0.3
0.3
0.33
0.46
1.78
0
CPU % (lower is better)
20
0.41
0.45
0.49
1.58
8.26
0
CPU % (lower is better)
20
0.38
0.41
0.42
1.45
8.19
0
CPU % (lower is better)
20
Graphics Benchmarks 3DMark06 The de facto standard in synthetic video benchmarking. Results are in 3DMarks, and higher is better.
3DMark06
10726
10662
10564
10381
10134
0
3DMarks
13000
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Using our own timedemo, we test the deservedly ubiquitous DirectX 9.c Source Engine. Results are in FPS, and higher is better.
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
166
165
163
161
141
0
FPS
200
Prey Using our own timedemo, we test the ingeniously modified OpenGL Doom3 Engine. Results are in FPS, and higher is better.
Prey
208
199
198
197
191
0
FPS
250
Page 1: Introduction and First Looks
Page 2: Layout and BIOS Page 3: Testing Methodology, General Benchmarks & Graphics Benchmarks Page 4: Performance Summary, Power and Noise, and Overclocking Page 5: Conclusion 
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