ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Motherboard w/ Intel i7-3770K Review

1. Introduction2. ASRock Z77 Extreme6: Packaging and Bundle3. ASRock Z77 Extreme6: Layout and Features4. ASRock Z77 Extreme6: BIOS5. ASRock Z77 Extreme6: Overclocking6. Testing Methodology7. Synthetic: 3DMark 118. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage9. Synthetic: PCMark 710. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark11. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201212. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.513. Synthetic: Super Pi14. Synthetic: CrystalDiskMark15. Real World: Media Encoding16. Real World: MKV Playback17. Gaming: DiRT 318. Gaming: Grand Theft Auto IV: EFLC19. Technical: Power Consumption20. Closing Thoughts21. View All Pages

In this review we are going to benchmark the i7-3770K at reference clock speeds and when overclocked to 4.7 GHz. We will be comparing it to a similarly clocked i7-2700K chip. Both of these processors were cooled using a Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU cooler.

Test System:

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K and Intel Core i7-2700K
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme6
Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-4
Memory: 8 GB G.Skill @ 1600 MHz 9-9-9-24
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6950
Power Supply: NZXT Hale90 750W
System Drive: Intel 520 Series 2400 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Software:

PCMark 7
3DMark 11
SiSoft Sandra 2012 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT 3
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

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