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Abit AN-M2 Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: July 18, 2007
Page: 5 of 12
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Overall Performance

We measured the overall performance of this motherboard using SYSmark2004, which is a software that simulates the use of real-world applications. Thus, we consider this the best software to measure, in practical terms, the system performance.

The benchmarks are divided into two groups:

  • Internet Content Creation: Simulates the authoring of a website containing text, images, videos and animations. The following programs are used: Adobe After Effects 5.5, Adobe Photoshop 7.01, Adobe Premiere 6.5, Discreet 3ds Max 5.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9, McAfee VirusScan 7.0 and Winzip 8.1.
  • Office Productivity: Simulates the use of an office suite, i.e. simulates sending e-mails, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. The following programs are used: Adobe Acrobat 5.05, Microsoft Office XP SP2, Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, NaturallySpeaking 6, McAfee VirusScan 7.0 and Winzip 8.1.

The software delivers specific results for each batch and also an overall performance result, all in a specific SYSmark2004 unit.

We ran this software in two scenarios. First using the motherboard on-board video, comparing its performance to other motherboards with on-board video we had available: MSI K9AGM2-FIH (AMD 690G), ECS AMD690GM-M2 (AMD 690G), Foxconn A690GM2MA (AMD 690G), ECS RS485M-M (Radeon Xpress X1100) and ECS GeForce6100SM (GeForce 6100-405).

Then we disabled the board on-board video and installed a GeForce 8800 GTS from MSI to compare it with an ASUS M2N32-SLI De Luxe, which is a high-end socket AM2 motherboard based on nVidia nForce MCP 590 SLI chipset. Our idea was to see if this motherboard would achieve the same performance level of a high-end motherboard when we installed a high-end video card on it.

Abit AN-M2

With its on-board video enabled Abit AN-M2 achieved the same overall and Internet Content Creation performance level of all other motherboards that we included in our comparison. On Office Productivity the reviewed board achieved the same performance level of ECS RS485M-M (ATI Radeon Xpress 1100) and ECS GeForce6100SM-M but was 3.11% and 5.08% slower than the other motherboards we included in our comparison.

When we installed our overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS on the reviewed board Office Productivity performance increased 3.11%.

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