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HandBrake is an application that converts sound and video files to other formats. Compared to TMPG we used in previous reviews, this one is multi-threaded so it can use the processor to its full potential.
POV-Ray, for Persistence of Vision Raytracer, is a 3D rendering software that has impressive photorealistic capabilities.
In Handbrake, the shortest time was achieved by the UD2H. In the overclocked testing phase, the ASUS board matched it. The UD3H once again seemed to be a bit limited by its low memory bandwidth.
POV-Ray does scale very well with processor frequency. Both Gigabyte motherboards got at the top because they overclock the HT link reference frequency a bit at stock, as I was saying. It is the inverse for the ECS board which runs it at around 199.5MHz; it finished last. Once overclocked, the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO got in first place.
They only tell us what your nice expensive CPU can do.
Drop the multiplier to 9, and keep raising the HTT baseclock and tell us what the MAX achievable HTT Baseclock is, that's more of a motherboard test. I need to know what board will let me maximize a $100 or less CPU.
I updated my article. See the overclocking section.
I want to see what sort of performance can be got from that setup in modern games with both the 3450 and the IGP overclocked to 800 Mhz +.
All the reviews for these boards seem to leave out any testing of Hybrid crossfire.
My friend is thinking of using a hybrid crossfire setup for a little while until the ATI 5750 is out but we're unsure if this will perform well enough even in the short term.