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.
Whilst this is an entry level board, I’m staggered to see that at stock it ranks quite highly in the Z77 tables, beating a Maximus V Gene amongst a number of boards from other partners. This results was double checked and for reference, that same version of PCMark7 is used as well as display driver.
After working with so many so called high end boards one tend to become jaded, simple boards like these are a breath of fresh air, they’re easy to work with, overclock surprisingly well and do exactly what they’re supposed to. To my way of thinking, simple is better.
The chipset heatsink is the exact same one which I had on the south bridge of my old Asus X58 board.
good motherboard for beginners like me..
eteknix can you please tell me if it can SLI.?
it can 2 way sli or crossfire and it comes with sli bridge