ASUS E35M1-M Pro Review - Anyone For Fusion?
by Brendan van Varik on October 25, 2011 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Asus
- Motherboards
- Fusion
- E-350
3D Movement Algorithm Test
The algorithms in 3DPM employ both uniform random number generation or normal distribution random number generation, and vary in various amounts of trigonometric operations, conditional statements, generation and rejection, fused operations, etc. The benchmark runs through six algorithms for a specified number of particles and steps, and calculates the speed of each algorithm, then sums them all for a final score. This is an example of a real world situation that a computational scientist may find themselves in, rather than a pure synthetic benchmark. The benchmark is also parallel between particles simulated, and we test the single thread performance as well as the multi-threaded performance.
During the single threaded testing, this motherboard was the fastest but it did not fare too well in the multithreaded environment after repeated tests. However both tests are well within statistical variance.
WinRAR x64 3.93
With 64-bit WinRAR, we compress the set of files used in the USB speed tests. WinRAR x64 3.93 attempts to use multithreading when possible.
The ASUS E35M1-M PRO is currently the fastest Fusion motherboard in our WinRAR test.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.2
FastStone Image Viewer is a free piece of software I have been using for quite a few years now. It allows quick viewing of flat images, as well as resizing, changing color depth, adding simple text or simple filters. It also has a bulk image conversion tool, which we use here. The software currently operates only in single-thread mode, which should change in later versions of the software. For this test, we convert a series of 170 files, of various resolutions, dimensions and types (of a total size of 163MB), all to the .gif format of 640x480 dimensions.
The result of 219 seconds is the second fastest we have for A50M.
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C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
It is a good one, huh? Perfect for HTPC.C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
However, G530+H61 would be another choice, or I could say, a better option.spaceyyeti - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
I got this thing combined with 4 gigs of ram, a crucial m4 and a damn silent be quiet! power supply. Installed linux on it and BAM; you got yourself a snappy and silent desktop/htpc with a "can do" attitude. I don't think a SB Pentium is going to give you anything extra that can justify the noise compared to this little f*cker. Hehehe.C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
SB pentium can offer much better CPU performance.spaceyyeti - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
that's obvious. but if you compare functionality, fusion is the better option imo. SB pentium might be the faster cpu, but the gpu in fusion handles movies a bit better as far as I know. and pentium is not that much faster to justify the noise, heat and power use. to be honest, you better get an i3 2100 or so, not that more expensive and a way better cpu. anything else in this segment is a waste of money. waddayou think?HakkaH - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
dunno where you can get an i3 and mobo at the same price though here it's impossible.Besides that Ati has one gigantic plus for HTPC enthousiasts. It can pass through full 5.1 audio through the HDMI connection. Intel lacks this option.
It's strong enough to be used as a home server as well. It's not that you'll crunch with it 24/7.
Really I found the AMD Brazos platform to be far more versatile than many think. I use it as a small webserver for my own photo portofolio and testbed for new stuff, my HTPC uses and various other things.
Just know the boundaries of the platform as in It's not a CPU monster and you'll find the Brazos platform to have a lot more than many probably think. I'm at least very happy with it which explains that I have now both an E35M1-Pro for almost half a year and an Lenovo Thinkpad X121e.
ven - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - link
I wish there is no clashes between Intel and Nvidia.Bless the ION.combination of best&best Intel will take care of x86 & media encoding and decoding will taken care by Nvidia.Taft12 - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
No passive cooling = no thanks.SB is not appropriate for HTPC.
C300fans - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
IMO, you can undervoltage the SB celeron or pentium so as to use passive cooling. SB celeron is much cheaper than this APU.spaceyyeti - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - link
okay, interesting. I like your style.but what about intel's problems with some video playback?
how much is the passive cooler going to cost?
how low do you have to go performance-wise?
but, most of all; the average user will not be capable of this kind of system tweaking.
but I really do like the idea! sounds like a fun way to get through a boring sunday.