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ASUS Motherboard: Works">Phenom in ASUS Motherboard: Works

By Nick Hodge | February 5, 2008

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After the des­per­ate fail of the Giga­byte mother­board with the Phe­nom pro­cessor last week: I indulged my mother­board addic­tion, took Michael Kleef’s valu­able advice and pur­chased an ASUS.

Spe­cific­ally, the ASUS M2A-VM HDMI board. Installed, upgraded the BIOS and it worked. Booted first time. In fact, a few driver installs later and the machine is working.

Per­form­ance change: As this machine is primar­ily a video cap­ture and encoder machine, transcod­ing is an excel­lent meas­ure­ment of per­form­ance change.I have a stand­ard 5Gb video that I transcode using Microsoft Expres­sion Encoder with a com­mon out­put setting.

ASUS M2A-VM AMD Ath­lon 6000+ : 17m27s

ASUS M2A-VM AMD Phe­nom 9600 BE : 14m09s

This is a 18.9% improve­ment in performance.

The Win­dows Pro­cessor per­form­ance on the Pro­cessor changed from 5.4 to 5.9 (as you would expect)

Now to recon­fig­ure the drivers for the digital video capture.

Topics: asus, technology | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Phenom in ASUS Motherboard: Works”

  1. tim Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    What RAM do you have in this system?

  2. Nick Hodge Says:
    February 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    Tim

    Really, really funny story.

    Was Cor­sair memory but NOT cer­ti­fied for the ASUS mobo. Had to upgrade — and its actu­ally stable.

    Thanks for your pointer, by the way. After the pointer I re-read the ASUS doc­u­ment­a­tion and came to the root cause of my issues.

    Nick

  3. tim Says:
    February 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    No prob­lem.
    I just pur­chased a 9500 myself. Wont be in transit until monday, so I’m hop­ing it will work in my mobo when I get it. It’s not AM2+, but from what I’ve read and heard, it doesn’t mat­ter all that much if you’re not a hard­core gamer. I’m just hop­ing to enjoy it until a good micro-atx board comes out with an nvidia chip­set. I’m caught in the AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU dilemma. My video edit­ing soft­ware don’t like those “RED” gpu’s. If’n ya knows what I means. Thanks for the RAM info.

  4. Nick Hodge Says:
    February 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Good luck, tim

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