3DMark 11
3DMark 11 is the latest offering from Futuremark, taking full advantage of DirectX 11 by utilising tessellation features and volumetric lighting. It takes your graphics and CPU hardware to the edge to simulate the most extreme conditions whilst working as a stand point to compare results with other users online.
Given the slight drop in performance within Cinebench, I’m surprised to see such a big jump up the rankings in 3DMark11. The mainstream board gives two top end Gigabyte boards a run for their money, outperforming then both under the extreme preset and closely matching the performance of the top end UP7.
Mainstream boards are the manufacturers bread & butter. I like this board. While the ROG boards only cater to the minority of people this kind of board makes the most sense to me personally. Although I’ve had a number of ROG boards pass under my nose which I’ve played with & tested, my personal rig which is very mainstream. I like the fact that this one has a legacy PCI slot as I still use an Asus Xonar sound card which is PCI. I have no intention of replacing it anytime soon. It’s sound is far better quality than the integrated sound bundled with most (if not all) high end boards & it’s overclocking capabilities are more than enough for most people. I owned (if I can call ‘owning’ parts I’ve managed to con from the suppliers) this particular model of board for a while and I was more than happy with it, in fact I’d still be using it if I hadn’t managed to snaffle a newer mainstream board from Gigabyte which is just as good.
I have it , its very good board , and ASUS is always the best and my favourite when its coming to motherboards
From what I have been reading Asus makes good boards but the RMA process is amount to: Just throw out the mobo and buy a new one. It is that bad.