GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)


The stock and overclocked performance for the Asus board is not as good as the Gigabyte 785G in image editing, as it drops 5-10 seconds behind. Both boards are slower at stock speeds than the older 780G/DDR2 motherboard, but when overclocked the performance is notably improved.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake

Our test uses HandBrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows - to encode a high resolution MPEG-2 video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.


Stock performance here is better than the Gigabyte board, but still a little slower than the 780G/DDR2 reference, however when overclocked the Asus again drops 10 seconds behind the Gigabyte on average.

Multitasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip


It's clearly multitasking where the Asus really shines, with a five per cent performance advantage at stock that increases to ten per cent when overclocked.