ECS A85F2-A Golden Board (A85X) 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.

Getting started with Cinebench, we see the ECS board at the higher-end of the scale and the overclock giving it a nice boost in score to 3.62, well past any other board in our tests.

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.

Super PI sees the ECS board below that of the Gigabyte, MSI and Asus boards tested which is a great feat for ECS. The overclock obviously shaved off some time when calculating under the 32M preset from 24 minutes 37 seconds to 21 minutes 42 seconds.