ASRock Z77 Pro4 (Z77) Motherboard Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

Starthing things off with Cinebench and we can see the ASRock Z77 falling around the middle of our Z77 range of boards. As soon as we overclock it to 4.6GHz, we can see the score dramatically improve, almost rivalling the stock performance of the X79 based Intel boards.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Moving to Super PI, the ASRock board is one of the slower boards for calculating, just inline with the Intel DZ77GA-70K and just beating the ECS Z77H2-AX by a few seconds. The overclock to 4.6GHz cuts the time by around 2 minutes, showing the true potential behind the Ivy Bridge processors.