ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Review: Our First Z68 Motherboard
by Ian Cutress on May 11, 2011 3:13 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Asus
- Z68
Dirt 2
Dirt 2 came to the PC in December 2009, developed by Codemasters with the EGO Engine. Resulting in favorable reviews, we use Dirt 2’s built-in benchmark under DirectX 11 to test the hardware. We test two different resolutions at two different quality settings using a discrete GPU, and an appropriate integrated GPU setting. (Since the game only runs in DX9 or DX11 modes and the HD 3000 lacks support for DX11, we test in DX9 mode on the iGPU.)
Our ASUS board does better in the 1680x1050 results than the 1920x1080, topping out the single and dual GPU results.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is the Crysis of the DirectX 11 world (at least until Crysis 2 is updated to DX11 support), challenging every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the built-in DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware. For the iGPU, we run in DX10 mode.
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tomoyo - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
Haha I love russia lines.But I do think a number of us want a system that is the fastest, lowest power, and quietest. Conflicting options, but options I always go for in every system. Also cheapest is nice also. It seems like a much better challenge than the lame boring crap of fastest o/c. Only the truly awesome can mix everything together :)
xinaes - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link
Conflicting, like anything else in life. We want to know what options are available and to find the best balance / compromise for our needs.L. - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link
Again, you want the greenest solution ?Undervolting is NOT it.
Sandy Bridge != reasonably powerful.
tomoyo - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
Uh what? Hello sandy bridge is amazingly low power consumption AND fast. Nobody wants a piece of @#$% atom or e series when you can get something fast AND low power consumption.L. - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - link
Errr .. you might want to go back to school and learn how to compare numbers ...There is NO comparison between an e-350 and a Sandy Bridge in terms of power consumption - besides said chip is not really a piece of crap if you don't play modern games.
NeBlackCat - Friday, May 13, 2011 - link
Which do you think wins in power efficiency, for the widest range of tasks from nothing to re-encoding a BlueRay?Stuka87 - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
It would be cool to see a review done that way to see what kind of power savings there are. My guess they will be very little since just about every modern chips declocks itself constantly.But this motherboard is NOT for that segment. This is a top end performance board. NOT the board to use if you want yo conserve energy.
vol7ron - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
The procs go into a low-power/normal state when not in use and they jump in clocks when workloads demand, but that low-power state is probably spec defined, and not the min that you could get. Just like, if you were to OC the chip yourself, you'd get more jump than the max boost.For these reasons, if a person wanted to manually set an undervol7ed/underclocked configuration, it'd be nice to know before a purchase. I don't think it's a fair assumption to say that same user would always use that configuration. They might do video/photo editing or gaming very sparingly and just want to conserve power when and where they can.
cyklonman - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
Sandy bridge undervolt it self to rougly 4W in idle, undervolting at load will gain more but there is no real reason.NeBlackCat - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - link
But when you're not at idle...