MSI 970 Gaming Review

Written by Antony Leather

August 21, 2014 | 08:24

Tags: #atx #best-amd-motherboard #phenom

Companies: #msi

Media Benchmarks

Download: here

We've developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open-source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake, and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while a HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

Gimp Image Editing

Website: www.gimp.org

Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an open-source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and to achieve a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient access to storage.

Image Editing

Gimp

  • MSI 970 Gaming
  • Asus Crosshair V Formula
  • Asus Sabertooth 990FX
  • MSI 990FXA-GD80
  • ASRock 890FX Deluxe 5
    • 917
    • 1073
    • 887
    • 1077
    • 882
    • 987
    • 872
    • 1034
    • 866
    • 947
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Video encoding with Handbrake

Website: handbrake.fr

We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode a HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Video Encoding

Handbrake

  • Asus Crosshair V Formula
  • ASRock 890FX Deluxe 5
  • Asus Sabertooth 990FX
  • MSI 990FXA-GD80
  • MSI 970 Gaming
    • 2520
    • 3063
    • 2482
    • 2671
    • 2479
    • 2947
    • 2467
    • 3078
    • 2436
    • 2834
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  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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