Abit AN-M2HD mATX Motherboard
Testing: Stability, SuperPi & Sandra CPU and Memory tests
Published: 20th January 2008 | Source: Abit | Price: £52.01 |
Stability
To test the limits of this board, i subjected it to a 12 hour torture session. To really push the board I ran Orthos, a dual instance of prime95, alongside a quarter-screen instance of RTHDRIBL.
I'm pleased to say that the board was still happily crunching away after the 12 hour period straight out the box. i hadn't tweaked the bios settings, or even needed to flash to the latest version to achieve stability as some of the boards that have passed though OC3D's labs have needed.
SuperPi 1 million
SuperPi is a program that stresses the CPU and memory by calculating Pi to a pre-determined level. The 1M takes it up to 1,000,000 places, and is a very effective quick bench for the speed of any PC. Because the Abit AN-M2HD is the first AMD board that we have reviewed, we have given the figures from our previous review of the Abit F-I90HD for reference. Due to the nature of the testing for HTPC use and the difference in price of the CPU's these figures are intended as a reference only and are not intended as a direct comparison.
To test the limits of this board, i subjected it to a 12 hour torture session. To really push the board I ran Orthos, a dual instance of prime95, alongside a quarter-screen instance of RTHDRIBL.
I'm pleased to say that the board was still happily crunching away after the 12 hour period straight out the box. i hadn't tweaked the bios settings, or even needed to flash to the latest version to achieve stability as some of the boards that have passed though OC3D's labs have needed.
SuperPi 1 million
SuperPi is a program that stresses the CPU and memory by calculating Pi to a pre-determined level. The 1M takes it up to 1,000,000 places, and is a very effective quick bench for the speed of any PC. Because the Abit AN-M2HD is the first AMD board that we have reviewed, we have given the figures from our previous review of the Abit F-I90HD for reference. Due to the nature of the testing for HTPC use and the difference in price of the CPU's these figures are intended as a reference only and are not intended as a direct comparison.
SuperPi 32 million
32m is a very much elongated version of the test performed above. As its name indicates it calculates Pi up to 32,000,000 decimal places, and as a result the benchmark is longer.
32m is a very much elongated version of the test performed above. As its name indicates it calculates Pi up to 32,000,000 decimal places, and as a result the benchmark is longer.
Sandra Synthetic benchmarks
The arithmetic test from SiSoft's Sandra benchmarking program are designed to test every aspect of the CPU.
The arithmetic test from SiSoft's Sandra benchmarking program are designed to test every aspect of the CPU.
The Multi-media test is designed to test the tasks that media centres would need to deal with on a regular basis.
Memory Benchmarks
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Good review there, Ham 
I might build a second system on a board like that, processor for £40ish and any old ram, bargaintastic!
I might build a second system on a board like that, processor for £40ish and any old ram, bargaintastic!
Ye the board is great VFM, even though AM2 get's shown up a little
nice review hambo nice mobo for a budget build..
nice mobo for a budget build..
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