Foxconn Renaissance X58 Digital Life Motherboard
Encoding Benchmarks
Published: 8th February 2009 | Source: Foxconn | Price: £249.99 |

ViMark is the latest addition to the OC3D motherboard testing process and a relatively new benchmarking application in general. Designed to take the inaccuracies and guesswork out of measuring the time taken to encode video files, ViMark produces easily comparable and consistent results for encoding raw video into Windows Media, Quicktime, AVI and Gif formats. As always, a total of 5 benchmark runs were performed with the highest and lowest scores removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 scores.




7-Zip is an open source Winzip-style file compression utility that has the ability to compress and decompress many file formats including its own .7z compression scheme. 7-Zip also comes complete with its own benchmarking utility for gauging the compression and decompression speed of the system that it is installed on.

Results Observations
Again, encoding performance has significantly increased over stock settings in both of our ViMark and 7-Zip benchmarks.
Most Recent Comments
I was waiting for the review of this. 
Awesome looking board and the northbridge looks epic.

Awesome looking board and the northbridge looks epic.
Not a bad looking board. That heatsink is strangeness personified though. Why produce a board that is unlikely to handle the huge heatsinks most people use? Very odd choice.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol.
Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol.
Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more.
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Originally Posted by name='VonBlade'
Not a bad looking board. That heatsink is strangeness personified though. Why produce a board that is unlikely to handle the huge heatsinks most people use? Very odd choice.
Like the colour scheme though. As those who've seen my profile can attest lol. Quite a steep price for such an average overclock. The Bloodrage is only 30 quid more. |
24GB anyone?
Nice review m8.
Couple of questions for you:
The CPU-Z screeny shows 1.216v. Was this max Vcore you used?
What was the Vdrop/droop like?
Couple of questions for you:
The CPU-Z screeny shows 1.216v. Was this max Vcore you used?
What was the Vdrop/droop like?
Thanks all for comments so far 
@ webbo: Nah voltage was set at 1.4v in BIOS mate.

@ webbo: Nah voltage was set at 1.4v in BIOS mate.
Good job on the review Matthew 
I would however have the Bloodrage over this any day..

I would however have the Bloodrage over this any day..
Horses for courses I think. The bloodrage is targeted to a different audience (hardcore benchers) whereas the renaissance is more a workstation based platform.

http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/artic...040726214s.jpg
Check out the review here