ECS HDC-I Motherboard Review

Our Tests

The new PCMark 7 performs a series of tests and gives scores in the following categories: An overall score called PCMark; a Productivity score, which is the system performance when using applications such as web browsing and home office applications; a Creativity score, which is the system performance when viewing, editing, converting, and storing photos and videos; an Entertainment score, which is the system performance when recording, viewing, streaming, and converting TV shows and movies, as well as importing, organizing, and browsing music, and gaming; and a Computation score, which indicates the processing performance of the system. Let’s analyze the results.

The AMD E-350 CPU from the ECS HDC-I was faster than the Atom D525 (which is by now the fastest Atom CPU, with two cores running at 1.8 GHz) in all the tests made by PCMark 7, being almost 100% faster in the PCMark and Creativity scores, 45% faster on the Productivity score, 19% faster on the Entertainment score, and 41% faster on the Computation score.

Comparing it to the Core i3-540 CPU, it does not look bad at all, even when contrasting the low-consumption, low-cost, E-350 CPU to a value/mainstream CPU, being 28% slower on the PCMark score, 40% slower on the Productivity score, 37% slower on the Entertainment score, 20% slower on the Creativity score, and 60% slower on the Computation score. It shows that, while the E-350 has far less “brute force” C
PU power, its integrated GPU is stronger than the i3-540, resulting in almost the same multimedia performance.