Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Z68 Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
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.
With a strong score at stock and a great increase when overclocked, it shows the potential if wanting to use this type of system for rendering photos and videos, especially when paired with an i7 2700k or similar processor.
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 shows that the system really does allow the processor to do what it’s best at. When overclocked to 4.6GHz, we see a staggering 2 minutes off of the calculation time.
