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.
Unlike 3DMark11, PCMark7 saw a clear gain in overall system performance, which is just what we want to see from a gaming orientated board, with the GD65 Gaming sitting just behind one of its rivals from Gigabyte.
top quality as always from the kings of bling.
The ‘gaming’ moniker is profoundly overused in products nowadays. As far as I’m concerned, apart from an add-in discreet graphics cards there is no such thing as ‘gaming’ hardware. As for this board, it’s a decent solid board but you can play games using any motherboard. It’s not worth the extra scratch over the regular GD65.
I built 2 PC’s for my two brothers using reg GD65’s and 2500K’s OC’d to
4.8ghz 24/7 zero issues for almost a year now. Coupled with a 670 in
one and a 7950 in the other they are pretty solid gaming machines…