Futuremark's benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released in 2010 we published an initial article on the new software that looked at some CPU performance as well as providing overviews for all the individual testing suites it uses and what kind of...
3DMark11
3DMark11 measures your PC’s gaming performance and makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders, and multi-threading.
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SiSoft Sandra 2012
The latest version of SiSoft Sandra offers up a lot of new features including compatibility updates for Sandy Bridge processors, media transcoding enhancements, Blu-Ray, and expanded GPGPU support.
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Gigabyte UEFI BIOS
The Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 motherboard comes with a heavily-modified UEFI BIOS that Gigabyte called their patent-pending "3D BIOS". The thought process being their UEFI BIOS is to allow beginner, intermediate, and advanced PC...
Motherboard Features (taken from Gigabyte's website)
Introduction
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Courtesy of ASUS
ASUS continues to optimize their hardware for the overclocking and PC gaming crowds, but they are also catering to a niche audience looking for ultra stable and durable PC...
Introduction
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Courtesy of Gigabyte
We are still making our way through an avalanche of X79 motherboards on our test bench that leverages the power of Sandy Bridge-E CPUs, but we didn't want to wait any longer...
Power Consumption
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ASUS Turbo EVO Overclocking
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4.62GHz overclock using ASUS Turbo EVO software
