More Tests

 

Super Pi

Here is the test and we choose 1 million digits..  Here is Super Pi on the ECS Z77 motherboard with Ivy at 4.2GHz

 

Now the FTW motherboard under the same setting. Identical performance from a single-threaded application. Please continue on to Fritz Chess Bench.

 

Fritz Chess Bench

Fritz Chess Benchmark is found within the game’s program files and basically it crunches numbers to test your processor’s speed. Deep Fritz takes advantage of massive calculations and multi-threaded performance to work any CPU fully. It loads all threads 100% and will drive your CPU temperatures way up.

Besides showing relative speed when compared to a P3 1.0GHz CPU, it also shows the nodes completed. The faster your CPU, the more nodes completed.  First up is the Core i7-3770K at 4.2GHz on the ECS motherboard.

 

Here is the EVGA FTW motherboard: Fritz runs marginally faster on the ECS motherboard.  Now on to CustomPC benchmark.

CustomPC Benchmark

CustomPC benchmark use widely available open-source applications to carry out the tasks that most of us perform on a regular basis. There are three tests, each of which measure different aspects of a PC’s performance. These tests themselves are not synthetic benchmarks but instead they use real world image, video and multi-tasking tasks to test the performance of your computer.

The tests are:

• GIMP Image Editing
• H.264 Video Encoding
• Multi-tasking

All of these tests are run on the overclocked to 4.2GHz Core i7-920.

As usual we test first with the ECS motherboard.

Here are the results of Custom PC with the EVGA MB 

There is almost no difference.

CINEBENCH

CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s professional 3D content creation suite, CINEMA 4D. This latest 11.5 version of CINEBENCH can test up to 64 processor threads accurately and automatically.

First the i7-920 at 4.2GHz with the GTX 680 at reference clock using the ECS motherboard.

Here is the EVGA motherboard running the same thing in the same conditions.ECS motherboard is slightly faster in the OpenGl test while the FTW motherboard takes the CPU test by a hair.

X264

Basically this test encodes a HD video clip into a x264 video file. The first pass is very quick and the second one is much slower and much more demanding of a task as it does the actual encoding. This benchmark is heavily mult-threaded. We use the Core i7-920 at 4.2GHz.2GHs using first the ECS Z77 motherboard.

Now the EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard..

It’s pretty close.  The next series of tests is going to focus on the hard disk drive (HDD) or SSD as a performance upgrade for both PCs

 

Crystal Disk Mark

CrystalDiskMark is a HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds. Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

• Measure sequential reads/writes speed
• Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed

First up is the i7-920 and the ECS motherboard:

Now the Ivy Bridge platform with the EVGA motherboard. This is the first time that we see a difference strongly favoring one motherboard over another.

HD Tune

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:

• Benchmark measures the performance of:
  • Transfer Rate
  • Access Time
  • CPU Usage
  • Burst Rate
  • Random Access test
  • Write benchmark
• Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
• Hard Disk Health
  • S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
  • Power On Time
• Error scan
• Temperature display

First the ECS MB

 Again we see a faster transfer rate with the EVGA FTW motherboard.

 

 

AS SSD

AS SSD is especially designed for Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains synthetic and practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD without use of the operating system caches. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read and write a 1 GB file. In the 4K test, read and write performance for random 4K blocks are determined. The 4K-64-thrd test are similar to the 4K procedure except that the read and write operations on 64 threads are distributed as in the usual start of a program.

In the copying test, two large ISO file folders are created, programs with many small files, and a games folder with small and large files. These three folders are copied by the OS copy command with the cache turned on. The practice tests show performance with simultaneous read and write operations

AS SSD gives an overall “score” after it runs the benchmarks. These scores and comparisons are summed up in the performance summary charts.

First up, i7-920 at 4.2GHz on the ECS platform.

Now Ivy on the FTW motherboard The FTW is faster.

 

ATTO

ATTO is a disk benchmark. The ATTO Disk Benchmark measures a storage system;s performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Options are available to customize the tests, including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode.

First up is i7-920 at 4.2GHz using ECS.

Results are similar to our previous tests with the EVGA motherboard ahead in the SSD benching. 

 

HD Tach

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices iincluding SSDs and HDDs. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and low level Windows interfaces to determine the physical performance of the device.

Here is the Long Bench with the ECS motherboard.

With this test, we are just measuring the burst speed – now the FTW motherboard:  Again this test is in favor of the EVGA motherboard.  Now we move on to game-related benchmarks and games.  First up are the synthetics and now we are beginning to bench each motherboard with our Core i7-3770K at 4.8GHz.

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