Tech ARP x264 HD Benchmark
Simply put, it is a reproducible measure of fast your machine can encode a short HD-quality video clip into a high quality x264 video file. It’s nice because everyone running it will use the same video clip and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate internal benchmark (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently. All these factors make this an ideal benchmark to compare different processors and systems to each other.
What’s x264? It’s more or less the next generation Xvid/DivX codec.
Scores were once again very similar between the two Asus boards, and the overclock gave a slight increase in frames compared to stock, but not as large of an increase as initially expected.
its getting late now, so i cant wait to read this tomorrow.good job mate :)! 1st 990 board review i have seen anywhere on the web 😎
There's a few, who got them out before NDA, naughty naughty.Feel free to share the link anywhere you deem fit 😀 Should attract in some people 😀
already re-posted it here and on Aria lol!TPU next me thinks :D!
Good man, just saw your thread at Aria. I got banned from there as i have a Scan banner floating around lol
Seem that newer isn't always better :rolleyes:
Great review Andy! Plenty of pics with descriptions was greatly appreciated as well as your opinion about when to upgrade. Thanks!
LoL 😀
lol!i for one am glad they left the thermal armour off this board. i just didnt like the look of it and it made temps worse
I seen some builds that make it look good <img src="http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3240/l1050729.jpg" alt="" />
that does look very, very nice, but id still rather a sweet black PCB like the GB boards have and ditch the thermal armour :/!
Awesome review, awesome MB. But Sabetooth is still ordinary MB with extra quality components. When Crosshair is more overclocker's one.
Nice looking building. Like the contrast with white fans.
the cable management could be a bit better tho! especially in that case :p!maybe im just jealous tho :p!
With the black and white contrasting colors, it could be in a Star Wars movie
no that what the Corsair 600T white is for 😀 <img src="http://img.techpowerup.org/110531/DSC_0726.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2648/3761399051_c8a312ea5e.jpg" alt="" />
haha! they r stupidly similar lol :p!
lol.. that's a pretty cool looking storm trooper case
i like this board i would buy it
For £10 more you can get the new Crosshair V 😀
hmm must admit i like asus crosshair v formula 990fx to lol<span style="font-family: arial;"></span>
Nice review Aruffell the only thing I don't like is having the Sata connecters facing out and not up.I have an Asus board with the the Satas facing the same way and I had to take the HHD Caddy out cut the lip off with tin snips so that I could fit more than a couple of Sata drives. Mind you if I was ever lucky enough to get my hands on this board, then it would have to be a new case.