Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
To verify that the motherboard works as advertised, the board was run through our standard benchmark suite. In most cases, the results are presented for the motherboard under review as well as a different similar-class motherboard for performance comparison purposes. The benchmark tests used should give you a good understanding of the board’s capabilities for both office and gaming use so that you, the reader, can make a more informed purchasing decision.
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Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel Core i7-4770K (3.5GHz, 35 x 100MHz Base Clock) |
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Motherboards |
ASUS Maximus VI Formula GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force MSI Z87 XPower |
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Memory |
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 modules (1600MHz, 9-10-9-27-1T) |
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Hard Drive |
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Intel 520 240GB SSD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA III HD |
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Sound Card |
On-board sound |
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Video Card |
NVIDIA GTX 570 1.25GB |
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CPU Cooling |
Corsair Hydro Series™ H100i Extreme Performance CPU Cooler |
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Video Drivers |
NVIDIA 320.18 |
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Power Supply |
Corsair HX750 |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
Test Setup Explanation
The 64-bit Windows 7 based test bench used for Intel Z87 LGA1150 board testing includes an Intel Core i7-4770K CPU, 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory, an NVIDIA GTX 570 1.25GB video card, and an Intel 520 240GB or a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD drive (the two SSD drives were found to perform the same in testing). Using the selected components gives us the ability to demonstrate the motherboard's capabilities rather than that of the components themselves.
Benchmark Tests used for evaluation:
- SoftPerfect Research NetWorx Speed Test
- LanBench v1.1.0
- ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.47
- SiSoft Sandra 2012
- LinX Intel Linpack Benchmark v0.6.4
- Handbrake video transcoder v0.9.8
- Maxon Cinebench 11.5
- FutureMark PCMark 7
Those 3 weaknesses seem like
Those 3 weaknesses seem like it should not get a gold but a bronze. I can not agree with that score at all. 2 thumbs down on this board and extreme.
bronze? You’re on crack
bronze? You’re on crack Flawedbydesign
Because its hard to get to the CMOS battery? The one you change every 5 years? Not..
The other two are minor and really only would apply to someone who would buy the extreme board anyway.
You have no clue what your talking about, and most likely can’t afford this board.
Good review PCP … It deserves a gold – What an enthusiast board!
Your analysis is FLAWED, I
Your analysis is FLAWED, I own this board and it is Golden.
Flawedbydesign
“Those 3
Flawedbydesign
“Those 3 weaknesses seem like it should not get a gold but a bronze. I can not agree with that score at all. 2 thumbs down on this board and extreme.”
Meh, 3 very minor negatives. Non of them will affect the board anyhow.
Excellent review Morry, this is is indeed my favorite Z87 board. Just look at it..plus the review which confirms its greatness. Very detailed review. Thumbs up
I own this board myself with
I own this board myself with a I5 4670K running 4.4Ghz@ 1.264V just using the AI Suite 3 software’s 4 way optimization, looks great performs really well and very happy with the performance foe the money, will be mounting 1 Powercolour PCS+ O.C R9 290 and if there’s space hopefully 2 in Crossfire
Nice setup. Glad to hear
Nice setup. Glad to hear that you are having as good an experience with the board as I did when testing it.
Good luck…
GREAT GREAT AND GREAT AND ITS
GREAT GREAT AND GREAT AND ITS A 4th GEN BEAST
ten Sata ports ?? need 4 for
ten Sata ports ?? need 4 for win 7 raid, 1 for win8, 1 for Linux mint, plus two for storage raid that’s 8, 1 for external Esata …… is this possible ?
Plus would this MB run a 4.5GHZ now ?
Hey guys,
I have bought this
Hey guys,
I have bought this motherboard and want to use the wifi-card but my system can´t find it…
do you have any ideas ?
hi
you need to enable the
hi
you need to enable the card in the bios! it is disabled by default