ASRock X79 Extreme9 Review - Price For Performance?
by Ian Cutress on January 24, 2012 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- ASRock
- X79
3D Movement Algorithm Test
The algorithms in 3DPM employ both uniform random number generation or normal distribution random number generation, and vary in various amounts of trigonometric operations, conditional statements, generation and rejection, fused operations, etc. The benchmark runs through six algorithms for a specified number of particles and steps, and calculates the speed of each algorithm, then sums them all for a final score. This is an example of a real world situation that a computational scientist may find themselves in, rather than a pure synthetic benchmark. The benchmark is also parallel between particles simulated, and we test the single thread performance as well as the multi-threaded performance.
In terms of pure throughput, both single and multi threaded results are reasonable, with multithreading scores in the top half of the X79 table.
WinRAR x64 3.93 - link
With 64-bit WinRAR, we compress the set of files used in the USB speed tests. WinRAR x64 3.93 attempts to use multithreading when possible.
Multithreaded performance doesn't do too well in our WinRAR test, being 9 seconds behind our top board.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.2 - link
FastStone Image Viewer is a free piece of software I have been using for quite a few years now. It allows quick viewing of flat images, as well as resizing, changing color depth, adding simple text or simple filters. It also has a bulk image conversion tool, which we use here. The software currently operates only in single-thread mode, which should change in later versions of the software. For this test, we convert a series of 170 files, of various resolutions, dimensions and types (of a total size of 163MB), all to the .gif format of 640x480 dimensions.
Singlethreaded performance is better, hitting 56 seconds in the FastStone test.
Sorenson Squeeze 6.0 - link
Sorenson Squeeze is a professional video encoder, complete with a vast array of options. For this test, we convert 32 HD videos, each a minute long and approximately 42 MB in size, to WMV 512KBps format. Squeeze can encode multiple videos at once, one for each thread.
Our Squeeze test for video conversion shows little difference across any X79 board.
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CaioRearte - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - link
Is actually pretty amazing. How far have we come, compared to the days where heck, even the panel didn't have a standard. Tons of funcionality in so little space.That card looks awesome, almost worth the price premium :).
MySchizoBuddy - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Request for a review of EVGA Classified SR2Wexy101 - Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - link
HelloI'm looking at this mother board for a future upgrade. I think its a very good one as it doesnt have all the fancy overclocking additions like a ROG IV but has the performance.
In relation to the fan speed, during the testing, do you know how slow you can make the fans? IE the amount of voltage that can be sent to it. ON my current MB i had to use FanSpeed to get the speed right down as the bios was unable to got that low.
Wexy
petar - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link
I have it as in the role of the 24/7 server running more than a year. It's becoming more and more stable as they make new bioses. looks like memory compatibility issue (with Kingston Blue 32 GB ram it used to freeze once in 2 days, now have 64GB Kingston crashes freezes a month). Same hardware ran on the previous server based on DFI mobo for year without single crash (only disk replacements when dead).