MSI 890FXA GD70 Motherboard review

1. Introduction2. The MSI 890FFX GD70 Motherboard (1)3. The MSI 890FXA GD70 Motherboard (2)4. Bios, Test System and Overclocking Threshold5. Game Testing6. Encoding7. KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark V1(4)8. 3d Studio Max 20119. PcMark Vantage10. Power Consumption11. Closing thoughts12. View All Pages

V2011 is the first release of 3DStudio Max to fully support the Windows 7 operating system. This is a professional level tool that many people use for work purposes and our test will show any possible differences between board design today.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques to help bring designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results.

Streamlined, more intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

Major new features:

• Slate: A node based material editor.
• Quicksilver: Hardware renderer with multithreaded rendering engine that utilizes both CPU and GPU.
• Extended Graphite Modeling Toolset
• 3ds Max Composite: A HDRI-capable compositor based on Autodesk Toxik.
• Viewport Canvas toolset for 3D and 2D texture painting directly in the viewport
• Object Painting: use 3D geometry as ‘brushes' on other geometry
• Character Animation Toolkit (CAT): now integrated as part of the base package
• Autodesk Material Library: Over 1200 new photometrically accurate shaders
• Additional file format support: includes native support for Sketchup, Inventor
• FBX file linking
• Save to Previous Release (2010)

We render a KitGuru custom created scene at 1920×1200 and record the time taken, lower is better.

We find the Gigabyte board outperforms the competition in this test, even if it is only by a single second. We re-ran the test many times and this was confirmed.

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