Legit Motherboard Reviews

ECS X79R-AX Black Series Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS)
Product: ECS X79R-AX
Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City PC Game

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The PC and Onlive version was released on November 22, 2011.

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City uses the Unreal Engine 3 game engine with PhysX. For bencmark testing of Batman: Arkham City we disabled PhysX to keep it fair and ran the game in DirectX 11 mode with 8x MSAA enabled and all the image quality features cranked up. You can see all of the exact settings in the screen captures above.

Batman: Arkham City Benchmark Results
Benchmark Results: The ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme Intel X79 Motherboard took a slight lead over the ASUS R4E and the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7. At a resolution of 1280x1024 the ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme averaged 64 frames per second while our other boards averaged 63 frames per second. At 1920x1080 the ECS X79R-AX averaged 43.3 frames per second compared to the 43 frames per second on our other systems.

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Review Index
Page 1 - ECS X79R-AX Intel X79 LGA2011 Motherboard
Page 2 - Retail Packaging
Page 3 - Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - UEFI BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp1 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Page 7 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark
Page 8 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 Benchmark
Page 10 - Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
Page 11 - Intel X79 SATA III 6Gbps Performance
Page 12 - Intel X79 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance
Page 13 - System Power Consumption
Page 14 - ECS X79R-AX Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion