Gigabyte E350N-USB3 Motherboard

Testing

The E-350 processor integrates graphics and processing into a single chip which also lists it the Radeon HD 6310 and woks at 1.6 GHzs. I therefore chose to match it up against its  Intel competition the JNC98-525E-LF which has an Intel Atom at 1.8 GHz and the ION2 chipset as the graphics platform. I then chose to match them up in a head to head comparison test and see which one comes out the winner.

The JNC98-525E-LF is an Atom Setup which uses DDR2 RAM while the E350N-USB3 is a E-350 setup which uses DDR3 RAM.  The specs are as follows:

JNC98-525E-LF:

• Corsair 2 GB @ 800 MHz RAM
• Kingston SSDNow 40 GB SSD

E350N-USB3:

• Patriot Sector 7 4 GB @ 1333 MHz RAM
• WD VelociRaptor 600 GB HDD

Both systems contain generally comparable components in terms of speed so the match ups in benchmarks should also be relatively close. Gigabyte benchmarks are on the left, Jetway images are on the right.

Video Playback

In the 720p video playback test both system did extremely well. At any one time both systems did not drop below 58 fps. This demonstrates that during smooth you will not be able to tell the difference while watching videos at 720p resolution.

Next up was the 720p playback while skipping throughout the clips. both systems performed well. The top performer in this test, however, was the JNC98. The playback at any one point did not drop below 31~32 fps mark whereas the the E350N-USB3 dropped to about 24~25 fps. While this is not very substantial as most users will not really be able to tell the difference, the JNC98 felt snappier during this test.

Next test to run was the sequential 1080p. I ran a 1080p trailer for 60 seconds and recoded the results. Similarly to the 720p sequential test, the users would not be able to tell the difference between performances of either board since E350N-USB3 and the JNC98 performed at 57 and 58 fps respectively.

The 1080p random skip test proved to be more interesting than the sequential one. The differences between the boards became more and more apparent when taking a look at the frame rates for both parties. The E350N-USB3 minimum frame rate was 9 fps, though incredibly short. The frame rates for the JNC98, however, did not fall below 24 fps mark at any point, which earns the JNC98 the win in this test.

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