3DMark 11
3DMark 11 is the latest offering from Futuremark, taking full advantage of DirectX 11 by utilising tessellation features and volumetric lighting. It takes your graphics and CPU hardware to the edge to simulate the most extreme conditions whilst working as a stand point to compare results with other users online.
Within 3DMark 11, the expectation was that the result was going to be very similar to that of a straight GD65 and this is exactly what is to be seen with an extra 47 points under performance and 7 extra points under the extreme preset.
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…