Review-Foxconn A9DA-S Motherboard: High-end, Yet Affordable

Test Platform

Here’s a list of hardwares that we used to test the Foxconn A9DA-S:

• Processor: AMD Phenom II 1055T
• Motherboard: Foxconn A9DA-S
• Memory: Kingston KHX1600c9D3B1K2/4GX
• Hard Drive: Kingston SSDNow V+100 64 GB
• Power Supply: Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 800 Watt
• Monitor: Philips 221E
• Input: Genius (keyboard and mouse)
• OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
• Driver: AMD Catalyst 11.2

Test Results

And here are the result charts from our standard suite of benchmarking software:

Blender 2.49b

Blender is an open-source 3D-modelling software. Performance is measured through the amount of time needed to render a 3D object. Lower figures represent better results.

Cinebench 11.5

Cinebench benchmark calculates hardware performance in rendering a 3D scene. The final results are measured in points. Higher points mean better performance.

Excel 2010 – Montecarlo

Surely you are well familiar with this popular spreadsheet application from Microsoft. Here, we see how fast each processor could finish the “Monte Carlo Simulation Table” in Excel 2010. The final scores are measured in seconds. Smaller figures indicate better results.

FastStone Photo Resizer

FastStone PhotoResizer is an image converter/ resize software capable of applying image manipulations such as resizing, cropping, rotating, and others on multiple files through batch operation. For the purpose of this test, we convert a collection of TIFF images (66 files; 527 MB total size) to JPEG format (quality level: 90). Each of the pictures is also resized to 600 pixels on the longest side. The entire process only utilizes one processor core (thread). Therefore, processors with high clockspeeds would have a slight advantage over slower CPUs. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the resizing and converting process. Lower scores are better.

MediaEspresso 6.0

MediaShow Espresso 6.0 is the latest version of this popular video encoding software from Cyberlink. The program converts video from one format to the other (available formats include BlackBerry and iPhone-specific video, and others). Media Espresso 6.0 supports AMD (ATI) Stream and NVIDIA CUDA accelerations. The newest version also offers Intel Quick Sync acceleration. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the video conversion process. Less time means better performance.

PCMark Vantage

Photoshop CS 5

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the latest version of the world’s most famous image editing software. We carried out our test using an action that applies “Photo Merge” and several filters on three TIFF images. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the process. Lower figures are better.