As usual, we compare the mainstream
mainboard’s speed in two different modes: in nominal mode and overclocking
mode. However, Gigabyte GA- F2A85X-UP4 is the first mainboard in our series of
reviews, so we decided to used approaching method to conduct the test just like
what we used in the measuring the power consumption. We used many tools and
testing utility to create different types of implement and measure the nominal
system operation with the default setting. Next, we conducted the same test
when we just overclocked the computing core, only memory, only graphics core
and combined overclocking. In this part, we will bring you receive results
together with the explanations. Furthermore in our review, we will take the
advantages of the results about power consumption and give the appropriate
conclusion.
We used Cinebench 11.5. All of the tests were
redone 5 times and the average value of them would be added in the performance
chart.
Checking
the CPU by Cinebench 11.5
We have used Fritz Chess Benchmark utility
a long time ago and it describes very lively. It will provide repeated results;
its size depends on the relative operation type numbers.
Using
Fritz Chess Benckmark
X 264 FHD Benchmark v1.0.1 (64bit) allows
comparing operational performances of the system with the available data. The
average value of 5 time testing is displayed in the following graph:
Using
x264 FHD Benchmark
We measured the operation of Adobe
Photoshop software by using our own benchmark taken from the Retouch Artists
Photoshop Speed Test which had been changed. It included the process of editing
4 24-megapixel pictures from the digital camera.
When
running Adobe Photoshop
Checking a process of storing a 1GB file
was compressed by using LZMA2 algorithm, while the relative compressing setting
still in the default mode.
Storing
ability test
Just like in the file compressing testing
process, the faster numbers in SuperPi 8M was calculated the better. It is only
the benchmark where the numbers of the processor’s core do not really matter,
because they create separate data loading.
Checking
by SuperPi 8M
The next graph indicates the result of CPU
testing by 3Dmark11- Physics scores. These scores achieved in the test modify
the complex system working with different objects.
Checking
by 3Dmark11
The benchmark integrated with the Hitman
Absolution game seems to be very useful. It can be installed directly from the
game, from the utility already installed in the game and even from the command
prompt. In order to have the at least acceptable result, we had to use the
lowest images setting and used one of the lowered resolutions.
When
running the Hitman Absolution game
Batman: Arkham City also reacts strongly
with any changes in CPU clock frequency, but it used DirectX 11. We run the
integrated benchmark of this game 5ties with high quality image setting and
take the average value of these times and add them to the graph.
When
running the Batman game
We are sure that this result is not as
surprising as the best results that we achieved in the system overclocking
process, when the frequency of every component was increased successfully.
However, in order to approach fully to the single contribution of each
component, we will have to refer to the power consumption numbers from the
previous parts in our today’s review.
