Review: ASRock Z97 Anniversary Edition

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 August 2014, 09:30

Tags: AsRock, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Benchmarks - core

There's very little separating the two boards at stock speeds. Performance is comfortably better than a regular Core i3-4330 once the ASRock to cranked right up to 4.5GHz.

But you can only go so far, and fast, when using two threads instead of four on the Core i3-4330. Overclocking the G3258 AE to 4.5GHz provides a near-40 per cent improvement over default.

More evidence that a four-thread CPU cannot be easily beaten by the Anniversary Edition. Still, a decent improvement posted for a £100 setup.