Testing – Gaming & Video
Gaming performance is normally more related to your video card, but we did run some tests to see if there was any change in performance when we overclocked our processor. First up is 3DMark’s Fire Strike benchmark.
Next up is 3DMark 11 which was run on the performance setting.
Remaining one of the most popular games of 2012, Battlefield 3 is both pretty and extremely fun. Online play is stellar with a multitude of game modes, DLC packs, and weapons, keeping the gameplay fresh and exhilarating at every turn.
We set the graphics preset to Ultra and benchmarked a selection of the first “real” mission of the game, Operation Swordbreaker. We chose this sequence because it is constant. By choosing a small constant sequence (real gameplay, though, no cutscenes!), we’re able to accurately compare graphics card performance between models.
Here is the benchmarking sequence:
And here are the results:
Our last game test is Alien vs. Predator. Using DirectX11 and high quality textures, combined with ambient occlusion, tessellation and hardware-intensive anti-aliasing, it utilizes much of what your GPU can do in order to test your hardware effectively. When configuring Alien Vs. Predator, we used the following settings: Textures: Very High, Shadows: High, Anisotropic Filtering: 16x, SSAO: On, Tessellation: On, DX11 Advanced Shadows: On, MSAA: 0x.
In Japan this (pretty good) board (with over a dozen software updates online already [complicating things]) only gets a ONE YEAR Warranty; via the Official Amazon ASUS Retailer.
I bought one and went to register it in English (and to join the owners club for added content); but was refused as there is no registration code. ASUS will not supply us in Japan/Asia with a 5-year warranty on paper (there is NO WARRANTY CARD supplied with the board as you get in USA/Europe/Australia/New Zealand/Canada/Russia etc).
We are discriminated against as customers/consumers?
They wrote to me and indicated that `IF` there is an international problem with the boards that I might have the right to claim a replacement board during the five years; but that would be difficult to process.
We get a ONE Year LIMITED Warranty here.
The Official ASUS Amazon retailer actually only provides a ONE MONTH IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT WARRANTY if the board fails.
After that we have to go to ASUS direct; and that is hard; due to customers getting NO WARRANTY CARD and NO REGISTRATION Number.
So; the MARKETING IS MISLEADING.
They blamed me for reading in English on an English site for any oversight (via e-mails).
If you can read chinese~Japanese KANJI they may have their claims on ASUS Japan; but I dont read the near impossible; especially anything technical that fluent Japanese mostly cannot understand in computing either.