Asus A8V Deluxe "Wireless Edition" (Socket 939)

Name: Asus A8V Deluxe "Wireless Edition" (Socket 939) - Page 6
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, June 10, 2004, 08:00 PM EDT

Next, we did some video encoding with all four of the test systems. To get these scores listed below, we took a standard MPEG 2 format video clip and converted it to DivX format using version 5.1.1 of the CODEC with XMPEG v5.03. The results below are reported in Minutes : Seconds. Lower scores equal better performance.

XMPEG 5.03

Digital Video Encoding

The Asus A8V Deluxe's slight memory bandwidth advantage allowed it to finish the XMPEG encoding test 1 second faster than the MSI MS-6702E. Once again, the MSI board when powered by the 3800+ was able to outrun the nForce3 / FX-53 powered SK8N. With only 3 seconds separating the competitors here, its tough too say any one system was the "winner", however.

Windows Media Encoder 9

More Digital Video Encoding

We continued our testing with another video encoding benchmark using Windows Media Encoder 9. In this test, we took a 416MB Digital Video file and encoded to WMV9 format. Once again, times were recorded in Minutes : Seconds, with lower times again indicating better performance.

The Windows Media Encoder 9 benchmark had an even smaller spread than we saw in the XMPEG tests. With Windows Medias Encoder 9, only 2 seconds separated the "fastest" system from the "slowest" system. Although the Asus A8V Deluxe did put up the best time here, the performance differences fall well within the margin of error for this test.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com