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Review: Scan 3XS X99 Micro

by Parm Mann on 29 August 2014, 17:30

Tags: SCAN, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Test Methodology

Comparison Systems
System Name Gigabyte Brix Gaming Mesh Nightblade 3 HEX PC Specialist Magma A10 PC Specialist Vanquish Mini 130 Scan 3XS Z87 Hadron Hydro Scan 3XS Z97 Vengeance 780 Scan 3XS X99 Micro
Overclocked No No No No Yes Yes Yes
CPU Intel Core i5-4200H @ up to 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4790K @ up to 4.40GHz AMD A10-7850K @ up to 4.00GHz Intel Core i3-4130 @ 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4770K @ 4.20GHz Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.70GHz Intel Core i7-5820K @ 4.25GHz
CPU Cores / Threads 2 / 4 4 / 8 4 / 4 2 / 4 4 / 8 4 / 8 6 / 12
CPU TDP 47W 88W 95W 54W 84W 88W 140W
CPU Cooler Gigabyte Brix Gaming reference Asetek 550LC liquid cooler AMD reference Intel reference Custom EVGA liquid cooler Corsair Hydro Series H80 liquid cooler Corsair Hydro Series H100i liquid cooler
Motherboard Gigabyte M4HM8AP MSI Z97I Gaming AC Asus A88XM-Plus Asus H81I-Plus EVGA Z87 Stinger Asus Z97-K EVGA X99 Micro
Memory G.Skill 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB) (added) AMD Radeon R9 Gamer Series (2x8GB) Kingston Hyper-X Beast 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB) Kingston Hyper-X Genesis 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB DDR3 (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 (4*4GB)
Memory Speed 11-11-11-28-1T @ 1,600MHz 11-12-12-31-2T @ 2,400MHz 11-1211-30-1T @ 2,133MHz 11-11-11-28-1T @ 1,600MHz 11-11-11-27-2T @ 2,133MHz 11-11-11-27-2T @ 2,133MHz 15-17-17-35-2T @ 2,666MHz
Integrated Graphics - - AMD Radeon R7 - - - -
Discrete Graphics Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 6GB MSI GeForce GTX 780 Ti Gaming 3GB - Palit GeForce GTX 660 2GB EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked ACX 3GB EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked ACX 3GB EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked ACX 3GB
Sound Card Onboard audio Onboard audio Onboard audio Onboard audio Onboard audio Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX 5.1 Onboard audio
Primary Storage 180GB Intel mSATA SSD (added) 2x 128GB Plextor M6M mSATA SSDs 1TB Seagate ST1000DX001 SSHD 1TB Toshiba HDD 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD 256GB SanDisk X110 SSD 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD
Secondary Storage - 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD - - - 2TB WD Green HDD 2TB WD Green HDD
Optical Drive - Lite-On Slim Slot-loading DVD Writer Samsung DVD Writer Lite-On DVD Writer EVGA slot-loading DVD Writer Samsung DVD Writer EVGA slot-loading DVD Writer
PSU Delta Electronics (180W, external) SilverStone Strider Essential Gold (600W, internal) Corsair VS350 (350W, internal) Corsair VS450 (450W, internal) EVGA 1U PSU (500W, internal) Corsair RM550 (550W, internal) Corsair RM550 (550W, internal)
Chassis Gigabyte Brix Gaming MSI Nightblade Aerocool DS Cube Red Edition Cooler Master Elite 130 EVGA Hadron Hydro Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Fractal Design Node 804
Operating System Windows 8.1 (64-bit, added) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Standard Warranty Two years Standard Warranty - (1 Year Parts, Lifetime Labour,1 Month Collect & Return) Three years (one-year collect-and-return, one-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (one-year collect-and-return, one-year parts, three-year labour) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only) Three years (first year onsite, second year return-to-base with parts and labour, third year return-to-base with labour only)
Approx. System Cost £800 £1,499 £469 £549 £1,749 £1,300 £1,899

CPU Benchmarks
HEXUS PiFast Our number-crunching PiFast test is used to benchmark the computational power of each system's CPU.
Cinebench Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses as many cores as possible.
HandBrake Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores.

Memory and Storage Benchmarks
AIDA64 Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency.
CrystalDiskMark Popular free-to-use storage benchmark, used to gauge sequential performance and aggregated 4K QD32 speeds.

System and Gaming Benchmarks
PCMark 8 System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration.
3DMark DX11, run at the Firestrike default test.
Aliens vs. Predator 1,920x1,080 resolution, 2xAA, 4xAF, medium quality.

Miscellaneous Benchmarks
Power Consumption Noted for system idling, under HandBrake video-transcoding load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Temperature Noted for CPU idling, under HandBrake video-transcoding load, and for GPU playing Aliens vs. Predator.

Notes

We have a few high-end and overclocked systems in our line-up, and the interesting comparison is between Scan's 3XS Z87 Hadron Hydro and today's 3XS X99 Micro. Said systems ship with CPUs clocked at around the same speed, they each have the same SSD and graphics card, and both are designed as small-form-factor solutions. The X99 Micro, however, has the added benefit of a hexa-core processor and DDR4 memory on an X99 chipset.


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