Testing Procedures
We will be running the Gigabyte G1 Assassin through a full battery of benchmarks. Once again here are the specifications of our entire testing system.
Intel Core i7 965 Extreme
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card
6GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3
Zalman ZM1000HP Plus 1000W Power Supply
Cooler Master V6 GT CPU Cooler
750GB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Here are some shots of CPU-Z. As you can see we have the system running at the stock speed of 3.2 GHz and the memory at 1600 MHz with timings of 9-9-9-24.
We will be separating the tests into four different categories: CPU, System & Memory, Video and and Gaming. Here are the following benchmarks and programs we will be using for each category. We will be running the tests at the stock speed of 3.2 GHz and our software overclock of 3.84 GHz.
CPU Testing
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Processor Arithmetic Benchmark
– Processor Multimedia Benchmark
AIDA64 Extreme Edition (download)
– CPU Queen
– CPU PhotoWorxx
– CPU ZLib
– CPU AES
System & Memory Testing
PCMark Vantage (download)
Super Pi (download)
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
– Memory Latency Benchmark
– Cache & Memory Benchmark
– Physical Disks Benchmark
Video Testing
3DMark 11 (download)
3DMark Vantage (download)
Heaven Demo 2.5 (download)
Stone Giant (download)
Gaming Testing
Alien vs. Predator (Buy)
DiRT 2 (Buy)
Crysis Warhead (Buy)
Now let’s get to testing!
