Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. The Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 Motherboard3. Testing Methodology, BIOS and Overclocking4. PCMark Vantage5. 3DMark Vantage and 116. SiSoft Sandra 20117. Cinebench R10 and R11.58. Super Pi Mod 1.59. KitGuru Photoshop Bench V1 (4)10. Media Encoding: Cyberlink MediaEspresso11. Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC12. Closing Thoughts13. View All Pages

For as long as I can remember enthusiasts around the world have been keen to see how their systems perform with many commercially available benchmarks from such companies as Futuremark.

While these applications are extremely useful to a wide audience sometimes it can be helpful to focus on a ‘real world’ application which many of us use on an almost daily basis.

You can get the KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4) here. Please note lower times are better as this means less time is taken by the system to process the commands.

	Stock	OC @ 3.80GHZ
1. Texturiser (1)	3.6	3.5
2. CMYK	1.9	1.7
3. RGB	2.1	2.0
4. Ink Outlines	33.5	32.3
5. Dust & Stratches	3.2	2.8
6. Watercolor	33.6	32.5
7. Texturiser (2)	3.9	3.7
8. Stained Glass	48.2	46.2
9. Mosiac Tiles	18.2	17.4
10. Extrude	233.9	214.7
11. Rough Pastels	19.3	18.6
12. Smart Blur	114.8	112.2
13. Underpainting	50.6	48.9
14. Mosiac Tiles	18.8	18.2
15. Spherize	3.7	3.3
16. Palette Knife	43.4	41.9
17. Sponge	43.2	41.7
18. Smudge Stick	8.6	8.3
Total	684.5	649.9

We didn't see huge improvements in the Photoshop benchmark, reducing the time taken by around 35 seconds.

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