Comparison systems |
| Motherboard |
ASRock Extreme 4 X79 |
ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF |
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P |
ASUS Crosshair V Formula |
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula |
| Motherboard BIOS |
1.60 |
0802 |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| Storage performance |
USB 2.0/3.0 read speed, SSD average read speed |
| Power consumption |
While idling and when running wPrime |
