System Setup and Benchmarks
The test setup for the AMD 690 benchmarking starts a big shift for us at PC Perspective: we moved from Windows XP to Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit for our testing environment. While not EVERYTHING is ironed out yet, I felt that more and more users will be adopting the new OS and thus our testing should be as future-proof as possible.
For this review, we’ll compare the new Gigabyte MA69GM-S2H to the existing AMD 690G motherboards we have used here at PC Perspective in the past: the Asus M2A-VM and the MSI K9AGM2.
AMD 690 Chipset Test System Setup | |
CPU |
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ |
Motherboards |
Gigabyte MA69GM-S2H |
Memory |
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 |
Hard Drive |
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
Video Card |
Integrated X1200 GPU |
Video Drivers |
Catalyst 7.6 |
DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
Benchmarks:
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SiSoft Sandra XI
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Windows Media Encoder 9
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LAME MT
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WinRAR 3.72
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3DMark06
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PCMark05
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CineBench 9.5
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Pov-Ray 3.7
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HDTach 3.0.1.0