Comparison systems | 
    
    
      | Motherboard | 
      ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF | 
       Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P | 
      ASUS Crosshair V Formula | 
     
      ASUS Crosshair IV Formula | 
    
    
      | Motherboard BIOS | 
       0709 | 
       F4 | 
     
      1053 | 
      1102 | 
    
    
      | Processor | 
       Intel Core i7 3930K  | 
      Intel Core i5 2500K  | 
       AMD FX 8150 | 
   AMD Phenom II X6 1055T | 
    
    
     
      | Memory | 
       G.Skill 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 | 
      Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 | 
    
    
      | Memory timings | 
      9-9-9-24-2T @ 1,600MHz  | 
    
    
      | Graphics | 
      AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB | 
    
    
      | Graphics driver | 
      Catalyst 11.5 | 
    
    
      | Disk drive | 
      Corsair V128 SSD | 
    
    
      | Optical drive | 
      Sony AD-7263S | 
    
    
      | Chassis | 
      Corsair Obsidian Series 700D | 
    
    
      | Power supply | 
      Corsair HX1000W | 
    
    
      | Operating system | 
      Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit | 
    
    
      CPU and memory benchmarks | 
    
    
     
      HEXUS.PiFast 
       | 
      Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places | 
    
    
      | wPrime 2.0.4 | 
      Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads | 
    
    
      | CINEBENCH 11.5 | 
      Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores | 
    
    
      | 7zip 9.20 | 
      We use the built-in benchmark in this open-source file-compression utility | 
    
    
      | TrueCrypt 7.0a | 
      An encryption/decryption benchmark that's partial to AES acceleration | 
    
    
      GPU benchmarks | 
    
    
      | StarCraft II | 
      DX9,  1,680x1,050 medium quality. | 
    
    
      | Call of Duty: Black Ops | 
      DX9, 1,680x1,050, 4xAA, high quality | 
    
    
     | 3DMark Vantage b1.2 | 
      Run at the default performance preset | 
    
    
      General benchmarks | 
    
    
      | Storage performance | 
      USB 2.0/3.0 read speed, SSD average read speed | 
    
    
      | Power consumption | 
      While idling and when running wPrime |