How we test
Comparison systems |
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| Motherboard | ASRock A75M-ITX | Sapphire PURE Platinum A75 | ASUS F1A75-V PRO | ASRock A75 Pro4 | ASUS P8Z68-V PRO | |
| Motherboard BIOS | 1.10 | x34 | 0802 | 1.50 | 0651 | |
| Processor | AMD A8-3850 | Intel Core i3-2100 | ||||
| Chipset driver | AMD Catalyst 11.6 | Intel Inf 9.20.1030 | ||||
| Memory | G.Skill 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 | |||||
| Memory timings | 9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz | |||||
| Graphics | N/A | |||||
| Disk drive | Corsair V128 SSD | |||||
| Optical drive | Sony AD-7263S | |||||
| Chassis | Corsair Graphite 600T | |||||
| Power supply | Zalman 400W | |||||
| Operating system | Windows 7 Ultimate 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 | |||||
Integrated GPU benchmarks |
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| Just Cause 2 | DX10, 1,280x720 low/medium quality | |||||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | DX9, 1,280x720, low/medium quality | |||||
| 3DMark Vantage b1.2 | DX10, Run at the default performance preset | |||||
General benchmarks |
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| Storage performance | USB 3.0 read/write speed via AS SSD benchmark | |||||
| Power consumption | While idling, running wPrime and Just Cause 2 | |||||
Testing notes
We've cut-down our regular motherboard-testing suite for this board. It's aimed at a specific market and we'll take a closer look at multimedia performance than would otherwise be the case.