Review: Asus Vanguard B85

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 December 2013, 12:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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System setup

Comparison Motherboard Configurations

CPU
Intel
AMD
Core i7-4770K
Core i7-3770K
A10-5800K
Motherboard
Asus Vanguard B85
Asus Z87 Sabertooth
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
Gigabyte F2-A85X-UP4
BIOS
1603
1007
F4
F14
F4
Chipset Driver
Intel Inf 9.4.0.101 and IMEI 9
AMD 13.6
DDR3 Memory
G.Skill 8GB (2 x 4GB)
Memory Timings
11-11-11-30-2T @ 2,133MHz
Integrated Graphics
HD 4600
HD 4000
HD 7660D
Discrete Graphics
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB (ForceWare 320.18)
Disk Drive
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
Optical Drive
Sony AD-7263S
Chassis
Corsair Graphite 600T
Power Supply
Corsair AX750
Operating System
Windows 8 64-bit

CPU-centric Benchmarks

HEXUS PiFast
Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
Cinebench Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
PCMark 7
An all-encompassing test to evaluate system performance

Discrete GPU Benchmarks

3DMark DX11, Fire Strike benchmark
BioShock Infinite DX11, 1,920x1,080 ultra quality
DiRT Showdown DX11, 1,920x1,080 ultra quality

Miscellaneous Benchmarks

Power Consumption While idling and when running Cinebench and DiRT Showdown on the IGP