The Test System and Test Software
Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system.
Test System
- Motherboard varies by review
- CPU: AMD FX-8350
- GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card
- RAM: Crucial 32GB 1866MHz DDR3
- Cooling: Thermaltake Water 3.0 AIO with Gelid GC-Extreme
- Case: Lian Li T80 Test Bench
- Storage Drives: Main storage: Crucial M550 512GB, Test Devices: SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD, Plextor 256GB M6e M.2 SSD and Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850w
- Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
- Networking: ASUS RT-AC68U router
Test Software
- SiSoft Sandra Engineer – available here
- WPrime – available here
- Cinebench – available here
- 3DMark – available here
- Bioshock Infinite – available here
- Tomb Raider – available here
- AIDA 64 Engineer – available here
- Latencymon – available here
- Rightmark Audio Analyser – available here
- LAN Speed Test Lite – available here
- Passmark – available here
All tests are conducted three times and the average taken to use in our charts.
I i am having an issue mine it is overheating but the rest of the PC is a nice 30c.
My specs are:
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.00Ghz
Ram: 8.00Gb
64-bit operating system
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB OC
HELP plz
You probably didn’t apply enough thermal compound to the heatsink seat
Uhhhhh the 970a Krait does not have m.2 support so how exactly did you test an m.2 ssd?