Testing – Gaming & Video
Gaming performance really depends on what graphics card you will be using. Because graphics drivers and games are updated so often we will mostly be running synthetic benchmarks here. To start we have 3DMark’s Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme benchmarks.
Next we run the Sky Diver benchmark in 3DMark
Our last test is Unigine’s Heaven benchmark, which is an extremely popular tool for measuring GPU performance. The settings we used are: DirectX 11, Quality: High, Tessellation: Normal, Anti-Aliasing: None, and full screen at 1920 x 1080.
You cannot install the i/o cover if you use the top slot for any of the new 1070 or 1080 cpu’s. The card gets in the way of the i/o cover on this mobo. And you want to use the top slot for your video card, closest to the CPU.