ASUS E35M1-M Pro Review - Anyone For Fusion?
by Brendan van Varik on October 25, 2011 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Asus
- Motherboards
- Fusion
- E-350
Left4Dead2
Left4Dead2 is a classic Steam FPS DirectX 9 shooter. It changes very quickly from GPU to CPU bound over a certain limit - our test is a time demo taken from a run through of the first level.
30.34 FPS puts the board in second place as well as being just a little bit behind on the top spot.
Dirt 2
Dirt 2 came to the PC in December 2009, developed by Codemasters with the EGO Engine. Resulting in favorable reviews, we use Dirt 2’s inbuilt benchmark under DirectX 11 to test the hardware. We test two different resolutions at two different quality settings using a discrete GPU, and an appropriate integrated GPU setting.
A result of 15.45 FPS puts this motherboard above any other Fusion based system.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is a challenging DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware.
All of the results collected thus far on the Fusion platform are very similar. There is a 0.1 frames per second difference between the top result and the bottom result so this board fits into right into the middle of the bunch.
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Aries1470 - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - link
p.s. I Forgot to mention that although it is capable of blue-ray etc it is only a DX9 that they have paired it with. They did not use the other options that S3 provide for at least a DX10.1silverblue - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - link
Nano X2 is a very promising technology, but reviews (and comparisons) have been somewhat lacking thus far. Unlike the 65nm single core variants, these are 40nm, and from looking at them in comparison to the E-350 and Zacate, they're the fastest, if only slightly ahead of the AMD part. It would be good to see VIA and AMD do well in this market.There was a look here in the Brazos review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4134/the-brazos-revi...
There's a video here of the 4350's power consumption and video playback:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FI4ctKzGnQ
Here's one of the 4650 quad core variant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeROMRmqTA&fea...
Aries1470 - Sunday, October 30, 2011 - link
Hi silverblue,Just wanted to say thank you for the links. Would have been great in the brazos review if they also had the power consumption, not just how powerful it is ;-)
Great youtube links too.
Just didn't know that the Nano X2 was better than the Brazos. You hear all about AMD but nearly nothing about VIA.
UrQuan3 - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - link
After Via sold S3 (their graphics group) I have heard very little from them. They had a good looking chipset in the works, but we probably won't see it now. I'm actually tempted to ask for one of the engineering samples like the one Anand reviewed.Finraziel - Monday, October 31, 2011 - link
Used this board's little mini-itx brother, the E35M1-I, in a build for my mom a while ago... Built into a mini-itx case with laptop power supply, a 500 GB WD Blue drive and a slimline DVD burner, along with one 120mm scythe fan (the slim version so it would fit), and it only used just over 20 watts in idle... Of course, it's not quite the same board, but I'm still guessing that 250 watt PSU is still pretty inefficient.My mom's completely happy with this system btw, she browses the web, plays some casual games, some minimal office work, and for that kind of usage this system offers plenty of power. Also with the 20-25 watt power draw, it doesn't matter that she never turns her PC off.
Harry Lloyd - Monday, October 31, 2011 - link
How come this board has eSATA, and NOT ONE FM1 board does?