Multimedia peformance and gaming results
The synthetic trouncing translates directly into a real-world trouncing in multimedia tasks such as audio and video encoding or Cinebench 3D rendering. These scores are all marginally behind those we've seen for other 975X boards, such as Abit's AW9D Max, but not by enough to be of major concern.
Gaming
With a CPU-limited game such as Far Cry at 1,024 x 768, the Foxconn's Core 2 Duo is supplying polygons much more rapidly than the MSI's Athlon 64 FX, with a 25 per cent performance benefit.
But there wasn't much to distinguish between the two platforms when we pushed the resolutions up sufficiently in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, so the CPU no longer became the limiting factor.
