Testing methodology
Comparison systems |
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Motherboard | ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF | Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P | ASUS Crosshair V Formula | ASUS Crosshair IV Formula | ||
Motherboard BIOS | 0709 | F4 | 1053 | 1102 | ||
Processor | Intel Core i7 3930K | Intel Core i5 2500K | AMD FX 8150 | AMD Phenom II X6 1055T | ||
Memory | G.Skill 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 | Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 | ||||
Memory timings | 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz | |||||
Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB | |||||
Graphics driver | Catalyst 11.5 | |||||
Disk drive | Corsair V128 SSD | |||||
Optical drive | Sony AD-7263S | |||||
Chassis | Corsair Obsidian Series 700D | |||||
Power supply | Corsair HX1000W | |||||
Operating system | Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit | |||||
CPU and memory benchmarks |
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HEXUS.PiFast |
Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places | |||||
wPrime 2.0.4 | Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads | |||||
CINEBENCH 11.5 | Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores | |||||
7zip 9.20 | We use the built-in benchmark in this open-source file-compression utility | |||||
TrueCrypt 7.0a | An encryption/decryption benchmark that's partial to AES acceleration | |||||
GPU benchmarks |
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StarCraft II | DX9, 1,680x1,050 medium quality. | |||||
Call of Duty: Black Ops | DX9, 1,680x1,050, 4xAA, high quality | |||||
3DMark Vantage b1.2 | Run at the default performance preset | |||||
General benchmarks |
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Storage performance | USB 2.0/3.0 read speed, SSD average read speed | |||||
Power consumption | While idling and when running wPrime |