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 just a few of the longer ones to demonstrate the performance gain from the overclock.

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wow great review, very informative.
wow great review, very informative.
To expensive for my blood.
Disagree, you get quite a bit for what you pay for
For me its not about what you pay for but how much you pay. I could care less about feature I'll never use.
That's true, but nevertheless, i'd rather have a well manufactured motherboard, then a cheap one, that could potentially damage my other equipments.
Cheap is not always a bad thing.
But cheap mobo can be a bad thing, because it connects all to all your devices, i could understand cheap harddrive or cheap case.
Connects “all to all”???
“it connects to all your devices”
To expensive for my blood.
Disagree, you get quite a bit for what you pay for
For me its not about what you pay for but how much you pay. I could care less about feature I'll never use.
That's true, but nevertheless, i'd rather have a well manufactured motherboard, then a cheap one, that could potentially damage my other equipments.
Cheap is not always a bad thing.
But cheap mobo can be a bad thing, because it connects all to all your devices, i could understand cheap harddrive or cheap case.
Connects “all to all”???
“it connects to all your devices”
I don't see how that would be relevant since the same principal applies to all motherboard not matter their price.
If the mobo is cheap, they obviously must use cheaper parts, which could potentially damage your ram, hdds etc.
I don't see how that would be relevant since the same principal applies to all motherboard not matter their price.
If the mobo is cheap, they obviously must use cheaper parts, which could potentially damage your ram, hdds etc.
I don't see how that would be relevant since the same principal applies to all motherboard not matter their price.
If the mobo is cheap, they obviously must use cheaper parts, which could potentially damage your ram, hdds etc.
If that was the case the product in question wouldn't be for sale.
If that was the case the product in question wouldn't be for sale.
If that was the case the product in question wouldn't be for sale.
What a nifty piece of kit! if only the price tag was in my price range! Asus always pulls good hardware out of the bag.. Nice blog and keep up the good work.