Testing – Gaming
For gaming I chose three DX10 titles, Crysis, PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, and Call of Juarez. Again, I ran tests at stock clock on at my overclock.
Crysis:
Though it has been out well over a year, I still find Crysis the best benchmark for gaming systems. I don’t know of any game that puts so much stress on the CPU and memory, and still is very VGA intensive. It will find those system instabilities not found by Prime95, Sandra Burn-in, and the Futuremark series, especially in memory. It is my favorite test for testing overclocks. I used the Crysis Benchmark Test by Boris Vergiza, settings were: CPU Benchmark, DX10, High, AA x 2, 1440 x 900.
PT Boats: Knights of the Sea:
PT Boats prefers a strong CPU and powerful video card. It has some tough camera angle changes that really raise low FPS scores. I used the standalone performance test, settings were High, AA x 2, 1440 x 900.
Call of Juarez:
Call of Juarez requires a strong system for any kind of decent frame rate. I used the standalone demo benchmark, settings were: High, AA x 2, 1440 x 900.
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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.