Media and Rendering Tests

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 LGA 1156 Mini ITX Motherboard Review - Motherboards 64

CineBench 11.5
This rendering benchmark based off of the Cinema 4D engine is a terrific indicator for multi-threaded processing.


 

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 LGA 1156 Mini ITX Motherboard Review - Motherboards 65

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 LGA 1156 Mini ITX Motherboard Review - Motherboards 66

Handbrake
Known mainly for its DVD re-encoding prowess, our test uses the Handbrake command line interface.


 

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 LGA 1156 Mini ITX Motherboard Review - Motherboards 67

A key demographic for any motherboard that will be used in multimedia PCs are how they render graphics and encode DVDs. The H55N-USB3 more than held its own in both categories by recording the top scores in Cinebench 11.5 and Handbrake. This could be attributed to the board’s overclocked processor during testing because it was only running about 133MHz faster than its counterparts.


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