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
Asus M2A-VM RS690 Motherboard
MSI K9AGM2 RS690 MotherboardReview

Memory 

Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

Hard Drive

Western Digital Raptor 150 GB – Review

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:

  • SiSoft Sandra XI
  • Windows Media Encoder 9
  • LAME MT
  • WinRAR 3.72
  • 3DMark06
  • PCMark05
  • CineBench 9.5
  • Pov-Ray 3.7
  • HDTach 3.0.1.0
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