Foxconn 925A01-8EKRS2

Name: Foxconn 925A01-8EKRS2 - Page 6
Brand: Foxconn

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, August 23, 2004, 09:00 PM EDT

We continued our testing with another application from Futuremark, 3DMark03, and with a video encoding benchmark, Windows Media Encoder 9. In the WME9 test, we took a 416MB Digital Video file and encoded to WMV9 format. Times were recorded in Minutes : Seconds, with lower times indicating better performance.

Windows Media Encoder 9

More Digital Video Encoding

The previous trend continued with the Windows Media Encoder 9 benchmark. Here, the Abit AA8 DuraMAX was again the fastest of the bunch, completing the test 5 seconds faster than the Foxconn 925A01-8EKRS2. A 5 second difference equates to about a 3.3% advantage for the Abit board here, which was one of the larger deltas we saw in all of our testing for this article.

3DMark03

DirectX Gaming Performance - Sort Of

It's not an actual game, but 3DMark03's built-in CPU test is a "gaming related" DirectX metric that's useful for comparing relative performance among similarly equipped systems. This test consists of two different 3D scenes that are generated with a software renderer, which is dependant on the host CPU's performance. This means that the calculations normally reserved for your 3D accelerator, are instead sent to the central processor. The number of frames generated per second in each test are used to determine the final score.

3DMark03's CPU performance test didn't show much of a variation between the three systems we tested. The Abit AA8 did post the highest score, but again the performance delta between the Abit and Foxconn boards was so small (13 points) it falls well within the margin of error in 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