Intel D525MW 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’s performance when using applications such as web browsing and home office applications; a Creativity score, which is the system’s performance when viewing, editing, converting, and storing photos and videos; an Entertainment score, which is the system’s 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 Intel D525MW (Atom D525 1.8 GHz) presented a performance lower than the motherboards with the AMD E-350 processor in all tests, even though it has a higher clock rate and the Hyper-Threading technology. In fact, we tried to watch a full HD Blu-Ray video with it, but it proved to be impossible due to the absence of 2D acceleration, which resulted in a very “choppy” video playback.