After the desperate fail of the Gigabyte motherboard with the Phenom processor last week: I indulged my motherboard addiction, took Michael Kleef’s valuable advice and purchased an ASUS.
Specifically, the ASUS M2A-VM HDMI board. Installed, upgraded the BIOS and it worked. Booted first time. In fact, a few driver installs later and the machine is working.
Performance change: As this machine is primarily a video capture and encoder machine, transcoding is an excellent measurement of performance change.I have a standard 5Gb video that I transcode using Microsoft Expression Encoder with a common output setting.
ASUS M2A-VM AMD Athlon 6000+ : 17m27s
ASUS M2A-VM AMD Phenom 9600 BE : 14m09s
This is a 18.9% improvement in performance.
The Windows Processor performance on the Processor changed from 5.4 to 5.9 (as you would expect)
Now to reconfigure the drivers for the digital video capture.
What RAM do you have in this system?
Tim
Really, really funny story.
Was Corsair memory but NOT certified for the ASUS mobo. Had to upgrade — and its actually stable.
Thanks for your pointer, by the way. After the pointer I re-read the ASUS documentation and came to the root cause of my issues.
Nick
No problem.
I just purchased a 9500 myself. Wont be in transit until monday, so I’m hoping it will work in my mobo when I get it. It’s not AM2+, but from what I’ve read and heard, it doesn’t matter all that much if you’re not a hardcore gamer. I’m just hoping to enjoy it until a good micro-atx board comes out with an nvidia chipset. I’m caught in the AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU dilemma. My video editing software don’t like those “RED” gpu’s. If’n ya knows what I means. Thanks for the RAM info.
Good luck, tim