This LGA775 socket motherboard is loaded to give rich multimedia experience to users. It includes integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD that supports Microsoft DirectX 10, Intel Clear Video Technology, and full hardware accelerated HD decode for high quality HD experience. EG45M-UD2H comes with HDMI interface for HD audio and video playback with HDCP support plus Dolby HomeTheater for vivid surround sound. As a safety feature,. the motherboard comes with Dual BIOS protection, which means that in case your BIOS crashes. it is automatically recovered. One more feature worth talking is Ultra Durable 3technology for low working temperatures.



The configuration of the test setup in- cluded Intel Core2 Quad 2.66 GHz, 2 GB DDR2 RAM. 120GB 7200 rpm HDD, and NVDIA's GeForce 9600 GTX graphics card. 3D Mark 06 and POV-ray score of this motherboard with graphics card was 10976 and 46951, both higher than EP45-DS3L. also tested in this issue. When we compared CPU performance and memory latency using CineBench R10 and SiSoftware Sandra, EG45M-UD2H scored 4002 and 104 ns, which are again better than EP45-DS3L motherboard scores. Finally to check overall performance, we used PC Mark OS, where EG45M-UD2H scored 6546, which is less when compared with EP45-DS3L motherboard.