ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 (A85X) Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 12 years ago
PCMark 7
PCMark 7 provides a set of 7 suites for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy. Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark Suite. The Lightweight Suite measures the capabilities of entry level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the full PCMark suite. Common use performance is measured by the Entertainment, Creativity and Productivity scenario suites. Component performance is measured by the Computation and Storage hardware suites. The Storage suite is ideal for testing SSDs and external hard drives in addition to the system drive.
The out of the box performance in PCMark 7 was mid-ranged compared to the boards from MSI, Sapphire, Gigabyte and ECS. Obviously the A85X chipset would perform better than the A55 based board we tested but did fall just below the other A85X boards.
The overclock helped to boost the performance by a large amount showing that the overclock really is beneficial for desktop based tasks.
