CPU & GPU Performance
Cinebench
Thrown straight into the testing and the board struggles to perform at stock, but once overclocked we have a figure that is one of the best we’ve had so far.
WPrime
A similar story with wPrime, this isn’t a promising start for the server dominator.
SiSoft Sandra
Well, that’s much better result, topping the chart at stock and pulling away when overclocked.
3DMark
The graphics performance isn’t really a huge factor nowadays thanks to the extremely high bandwidth offered by the motherboard itself, rather the limitation is with the graphics card itself.
Tomb Raider
The GTX 980Ti really pulling out all of the stops here and provides one of the best FPS scores we’ve seen through the Z170 testing.
Bioshock Infinite
The SuperMicro providing the best possible experience for the GTX 980Ti to lay down all of its power here and provide another great result.
Eh? ‘Overclockers Dream’ award but you said, “The BIOS features are so extensive that trying to overclock the CPU was an absolute nightmare. The BIOS needs a lot more work to become user-friendly on a mass scale”. Doesn’t make sense to me…
However the performance was surprisingly very good! Perhaps a ‘Performance’ award of some kind would have been better suited.
I bought it. It takes 12 seconds to load the bios logo and 28 seconds in total to show the windows 10 login. Performance?!