ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion and X79 Professional Review: From a Gamer to Gamers
by Ian Cutress on February 9, 2013 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- ASRock
- Fatal1ty
- X79
The X79 Fatal1ty boards had some small issues related to gaming worth noting in this section. Starting with the Champion, it should be noted that the fourth PCIe slot would never engage in PCIe 3.0 – even when set in the BIOS, it would drop down to PCIe 2.0 x8 in the operating system. On the Professional, PCIe 2.0 was enabled by default, meaning all the results here were performed at PCIe 2.0. To make matters worse, every now and again the Professional would reduce one of the GPUs to PCIe 1.1, requiring a restart to bring it back up to speed. This is an unfortunate set of events for any gaming motherboard.
Metro2033
Metro2033 is a DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware at 2560x1440 with full graphical settings. Results are given as the average frame rate from 4 runs.
Dirt 3
Dirt 3 is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the Colin McRae Rally series, developed and published by Codemasters. Using the in game benchmark, Dirt 3 is run at 2560x1440 with Ultra graphical settings. Results are reported as the average frame rate across four runs.
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Tech-Curious - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
Excellent thought.Iketh - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
+1JlHADJOE - Sunday, February 10, 2013 - link
Or name the board after famous scientists.I'd totally rock a Pauli edition X79.
And how many planking pics would we have if there was a Max Planck motherboard?
Geraldo8022 - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
celeb endorsement is a time-honored tradition and it is only getting worse. witness Beats headphones. heck, look at Air Jordans. And even for adults look at the endorsements for beer and golf clubs, etc. These companies wouldn't do it if they didn't think it paid.shabby - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
I'd like to see a matt damon edition motherboard...Omega215D - Sunday, February 10, 2013 - link
Sadly a lot of the Air Jordans have gone down in terms of quality.Soda-88 - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
If his brand is doing so well, I can only imagine what Grubby can do after he retires from gaming with his near 800.000 twitter/weibo followers (gaining roughly 15.000/month on weibo).dgz - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
WarCraft 3 never achieved the status of Quake 3, though. It's a terrible game that no one played after 3 years.Fatali1ty did a lot for Quake 3 in the early days and virtually revolutionized UT2003 when it was new. Quake 3 was quite a big deal back then.
He also won the CPL World Tour thingy.
Now, if you said BoXeR, JaeDong, or Flash, I'd agree. But not a lot of people care for SC outside Korea.
firefreak111 - Sunday, February 10, 2013 - link
Did you just say noone plays Warcraft 3? Look on the damn custom games! It's had an extremely active community for years and people still make maps for it. It's a great game that has aged well.JlHADJOE - Sunday, February 10, 2013 - link
no love for Thresh?