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Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding

Extreme P55: Four LGA 1156 Motherboards Over $250
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Arranging our charts by performance first, then alphabetically, always does a little injustice to MSI when there’s a tie. The Maximus III Formula merely matches the Big Bang Trinergy in iTunes audio conversion.

The Maximus III Formula edges out MSI in Lame, while MSI edges out the remaining models of today’s comparison.

The Trinergy takes another win in TMPGEnc, cutting DivX encoding by a single second compared to its closest competitor.

MainConcept shows both Asus products leading MSI, then EVGA.

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    Raptorial , 21 January 2010 16:25
    The only thing for me is: why did you not test 2 VGA cards? Two of the boards use a NF200 chip, now you won't see the results from this...

    Whyle this is why the EVGA and MSI are expensive.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the MSI P55-GD80 performs better with 1 VGA card then its expensive brother.
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    LePhuronn , 22 January 2010 04:18
    I'm still going 1366 simply because for what I do I prefer 12GB RAM over 8GB - that's honestly the only reason now.
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    Anonymous , 23 January 2010 20:26
    You should have tested this against a 150$ board and a 50$ board. That would have been interesting.
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    Redsnake77 , 28 January 2010 20:20
    When are you gonna do the three card crossfire / SLI review comparing the msi and evga P55 boards with X58? There's seems little relevance to reviewing these cards at all without including a 3 card metric, as that is their primary function. You wouldn't spend double the amount on either of these two boards otherwise.