BIOSTAR A68N-5200 Motherboard Review

Networking Performance

Passmark Performance Test 8 – Ethernet

The motherboard’s networking solution fared pretty well when using the TCP protocol and wasn’t too adrift of exceeding 900Mbps. Bizarrely, the UDP rate was incredibly slow and illustrates the large performance deficit compared to TCP testing.

Passmark Performance Test 8 – CPU Work Load

Here we can see the CPU loads for both TCP and UDP are substantial which is to be expected given the processor’s lack of horsepower. Despite this, it’s nothing too worrying and doesn’t peak above 20%.