ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Motherboard Review

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2 is a popular franchise and we benchmarked the video cards using Episode Two with the aid of HOC Half-Life 2 Episode Two benchmarking utility using the “HOC Demo 1” provided by this program. We ran the game under 1440×900 with no anti-aliasing and bilinear filtering, i.e., using the lowest image quality possible. The results, given in frames per second, you see below. This game was included to see how the on-board video from the selected motherboards would perform with an older game being run.

Here AMD 890GX was 37% faster than AMD 785G. A low-end Radeon HD 3450 was 49% faster than the integrated video from AMD 890GX. With this low-end video card installed, ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 was 18% faster than ECS A785GM-M.