ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Intel Z77 Motherboard Review

Testing – Video
For our video testing, we used a few well-known suites. First up, the ever-popular 3DMark11. We ran this with the “Performance (720p)” setting.

3dmark11

Following this, we used 3DMark Vantage. Again, this was run on the “Performance” setting.

3dmarkv

Finally, we tested the motherboard with a couple of 3D-intense demos and gauged their FPS as a measure of graphics performance.  Here you and on the next page you will not see much of a difference in scores as the GPU is doing most of the work.

First we ran Unigine’s Heaven demo 3.0, a popular DirectX 11 based 3D benchmarking tool. Settings used were; 1920×1080 resolution, Tessellation: Disabled, Shaders: High, Anisotropy: 4x, Anti-Aliasing: Off.

heaven

Following on from Heaven we ran Stone Giant, a similar test to Heaven, but with different technologies and shader types. The settings we used were; Resolution: 1920×1080, Aspect: Auto, Tessellation: High.

stonegiant