Testing – Futuremark / PhotoShop
Next I ran my favorite Futuremark benchmarks, PCMark05, PCMark Vantage, 3DMark06, and 3DMark Vantage.
For real world Testing I used Driver Heaven’s Photoshop Bench, a utility that runs a series of filters on a large .jpg, the scores are determined by how many seconds it takes to complete each filter operation. There are 15 steps, many of them take only a few seconds or less, so I’m showing some of the longer ones to demonstrate the performance gain from the overclock.
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I have discovered a flaw with this motherboard, and I assume other ASROCK motherboards with the x16/x8+x8 card. After a period of time the card loses its connection and you start getting random blackouts on your monitor. Remove the card, use a Q-tip and some isopropyl alcohol to clean the card’s contacts. Wet them with alcohol and reseat the card several times to clean the contacts on the motherboard.
After the first time I have had to do this again every few weeks.