Legit Motherboard Reviews

ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: ASRock
Product: ASRock Extreme 9
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 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 benchmark 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: Batman: Arkham City played very consistent across all of our boards today. The ASRock X79 Extreme9 averaged 63.7 frames per second at 1280x1020. This is right in the realm of what we have seen from our other Intel X79 motherboards. The performance at 1920x1080 was slightly higher than what we have previously seen. With an average of 44 frames per second, the ASRock X79 Extreme9 is .7 frames per second faster than the ECS X79R-AX which was our previous best contender at that resolution.

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Review Index
Page 1 - ASRock X79 Extreme9 Intel X79 Motherboard
Page 2 - ASRock X79 Extreme9 Retail Packaging and Bundle
Page 3 - ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - ASRock X79 Extreme9 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 - ASRock X79 Extreme9 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion