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ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark

3DMark 11 Screenshot

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

3DMark 11 Settings

Since Futuremark is releasing 3DMark11 today we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX Motherboard 3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark Results

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX Motherboard 3DMark 11 Performance Benchmark Results

Benchmark results: The extreme preset of Futuremark 3DMark 11 yielded results that show a slight difference between our two systems today. The ASUS Crosshair IV Formula with the AMD FX-8150 scored 1651 3DMarks and took the lead with 40 points in the overall score. The Graphics score of the AMD FX-8150 was 1494 3DMarks and took the lead by 33 points. The overall score showed a difference of ~2.5%, this isn't nearly the margin we were expecting. The performance preset gave us a slightly larger margin of 4.2% with the FX-8150 in the lead.

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Review Index
Page 1 - ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula
Page 2 - ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula Retail Packaging
Page 3 - ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula Layout
Page 4 - ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula UEFI BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 Sp5 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark
Page 8 - AMD CrossFireX Gaming Performance
Page 9 - NVIDIA SLI Gaming Performance
Page 10 - ASUS Crosshair V Formula SATA III 6Gbps Performance
Page 11 - ASUS Crosshair V Formula SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance
Page 12 - System Power Consumption
Page 13 - ASUS Crosshair V Formula Overclocking
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion