Asus E35M1-M PRO Micro ATX
Gaming Performance
Published: 3rd February 2011 | Source: Asus | Price: £119.99 |
Gaming Performance
This is without doubt a bit of a curve ball for a product of this nature. We may well be gearing the entry level platform for failure on applications that it wasn't designed for, however we felt that it would be an interesting means of trying to determine the limitations of the HD 6310 GPU and the extent to which the E350 APU can bottleneck (*GAG*) a dedicated graphics card.
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is Futuremarks flagship gaming oriented benchmark at present and is considered to be a demanding one at that. Our tests were carried out under the "Performance" prefix.
So it came to no surprise that the little Brazos Dual Core would not fair particularly well in this intensive benchmark. Moreover it was clear that the processor as well as the PCI-E 4x interface was holding our Radeon HD 5670 back by up to a third. However, to be closing in on P1000 marks with an embedded system is quite impressive.
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is a very popular hit and should be an interesting choice to take our testbed for a spin. Let's see how well it performs.
Thankfully it isn't all doom and gloom, where we find the Asus E35M1-M PRO based system performing similarly to a Core i3 + H55 based configuration.
That said, the dreaded processor hold up continues where the inclusion of the Radeon HD 5670 only yields a 4fps increase in framerate.
DiRT 2
DiRT2 is a very recent race driving game, known for it's Direct X 11 support.
We are pretty horrible people for abusing this system with a full fat DirectX 11 game, but we do prove our point yet again that the little E350 cannot cope with anything as computationally heavy as this.
Most Recent Comments
As the new HD 6310 GPU supports UVD 3.0, this means that DivX decoding is now included (on top of the existing MPEG2/H.264) and also Blu-Ray 3D support. However neither Asus or AMD have clearly stated that the HD 6310 will decode 3D well. I suppose this will become more clear as time goes on however my initial impressions are that a HTPC for higher end functionality such as 3D support or anything else that may command some more CPU horse power is probably better off with a conventional CPU and dedicated GPU.
I hope that helps
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Originally Posted by wotevajjjj
will my NHD14 fit ? |
Pros: you'll have the coolest running 18W CPU on the block. WooHoo! Bragging rights.
Cons: You'll probably need to work on the mount - I don't see the usual AM3 hardware on that board. And do you figure £150 or more on a full-tower case to accommodate the Noctua is about right for a rig like this? An HAF-X or a Lanboy Air would be quite stylish.
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=9BmKhMwWCwqyl1lz&templete=2
Looks like it includes WiFi plus blue-tooth 3.0. Anyway, just look at the specs on this little monster. The feature set is extremely impressive for a Mini ITX board. I think this would make a sweet little pc that you could mount to the back of a monitor for a clutter and noise free desk. Definitely good for email, web browsing, word, netflix and watching movies.
So as Mul suggested probably wait for a more powerful AMD Fusion APU, and than bolt on a nice HTPC soundcard and PROFITS!
it doubled. so my question is using a discrete vga does indeed improves cpu perfomanse?? so a few more test with winzip and other cpu programs to see if with a discrete vga they will improve. if they improve then it will be interesting :-)
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Originally Posted by anikhtos
ANyone to comment that when you add the discrete card aand run the test to see how much it will bottleneck did you check the cpu score from 954 to 2020?? it doubled. so my question is using a discrete vga does indeed improves cpu perfomanse?? so a few more test with winzip and other cpu programs to see if with a discrete vga they will improve. if they improve then it will be interesting :-) |
But for a normal CPU, unless you a running nVidia with Physx I doubt it.
Loving these little options myself.
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Originally Posted by anikhtos
ANyone to comment that when you add the discrete card aand run the test to see how much it will bottleneck did you check the cpu score from 954 to 2020?? it doubled. so my question is using a discrete vga does indeed improves cpu perfomanse?? so a few more test with winzip and other cpu programs to see if with a discrete vga they will improve. if they improve then it will be interesting :-) |
There was an error with this graph; CPU score should read 1954, not 954. This has now been edited, apologies if this has caused any confusion.
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Originally Posted by Zeals
AMD Fusion seems like the perfect choice for a HTPC, a few questions, is this capable of 3D? Also does it upscale well? |
Another question would the new form factor have any complications in fitting into a standard ATX case?
Thanks
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Originally Posted by Jayzon
I am loving that the new technology for HTPC users like myself, as I am looking into this E35M1-M Pro board to build a low power HTPC. The only reason I would take this over the E35M1-M mini ATX board is that I need 2 PCIE slots for my Happauge Win Tv tuner cards, unless someone could tell me a great way of getting dual NTSC signals into one card ? Another question would the new form factor have any complications in fitting into a standard ATX case? Thanks |
http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/dvbt/
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