H55 & H57 Motherboard Roundup Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will be the system specific benchmarks.

 

Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:

• Resolution: 2750x2048
• Quality: 500
• Limit Memory use: 512MB

 

 

The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lower is Better

 

WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 100MB and 500MB files to test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds. Additionally, I will use the built in benchmark as a comparison.

 

ZIP:

 

 

Lower is Better

 

 

RAR:

 

 

 

Lower is Better

 

 

 

In both Apophysis and WinRAR the results were almost identical for the Gigabyte H55M-USB3, Asus P7H57D-V EVO, ECS H57H-MUS and H55H-I. The same couldn't be said for the H55H-CM though as its performance was behind all the other boards. The lower performance level of the H55H-CM is likely to be a trend we continue to see due to the reduced memory frequency.