11-27-2010 review by kitguru

This mainboard is a good all-rounder that showed decent performance results throughout the benchmark tests. The memory slots are very close to the CPU socket, which could be a problem when installing a large heatsink.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Fraps, Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC, PC mark vantage, Photoshop, Sisoft Sandra, SuperPi.

Overclocking:

An Intel Core i5 750 was OCed @ 4.0GHz.

Compared To:

This mainboard was not compared to another board, instead it was compared to its own OC results.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Corsair Graphite 600T
• CPU Cooler : CoolIT ECO A.L.C.
• HDD : Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
• Power Supply : Corsair TX650W
• Processor : Intel Core i5 750
• RAM : Crucial Ballistix 2x 2GB DDR3
• Video Card : Zotac GeForce GTX 470