ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe Vs. Soltek SL-915GPro-FGR - Intel 915G Doubleshot

Name: ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe Vs. Soltek SL-915GPro-FGR - Intel 915G Doubleshot - Page 10
Brand: ASUS

by Jeff Bouton — Tuesday, December 07, 2004, 01:00 PM EDT

Business & Content Creation Winstone

Page 10: Business & Content Creation Winstone

Business & Content Creation Winstone

Real World Application Performance

PC Magazine's Winstone Test Suite is an excellent benchmarking tool for testing the CPU, memory, and overall system performance. Content Creation Winstone focuses on common media intensive tasks, while Business Winstone assesses general workstation application performance. Below is a breakdown of each package's software complement that is used to issue an overall score when complete.

Content Creation 2004 v1.0.1	Business Winstone 2004 v1.0.1
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 Adobe Premiere 6.50 Macromedia Director MX 9.0 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1 Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980 NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f	Microsoft Access 2002 Microsoft Excel 2002 Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Microsoft Outlook 2002 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Microsoft Project 2002 Microsoft Word 2002 Norton Antivirus Professional Edition 2003 WinZip 8.1

When it comes down to everyday usage, the two motherboard's posted nearly identical results. With multimedia intensive applications, there was a slight edge in favor of the ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe, topping the Soltek model in the Content Creation test. Conversely, the Soltek SL-915GPro-FGR managed to top the ASUS model in general application usage, taking the top seed in Business Winstone, also by a close margin. At this point, saying one beat the other is truly splitting hairs as both models managed virtually identical results overall.