Asus ROG Maximus V Gene Z77 w/ Intel i7 3770K Review

1. Introduction2. Intel i7 3770k3. Asus ROG Maximus V Gene Z774. Asus ROG Maximus V Gene Z77 (Super High Res Gallery)5. Bios and Overclocking6. Testing Methodology7. Synthetic: PCMark 78. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage9. Synthetic: 3DMark 1110. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark11. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201112. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit13. Synthetic: SSD Performance14. Real World: 3D Rendering15. Real World: Media Encoding16. Real World: HandBrake 9.517. Gaming: Resident Evil 5 (HD4000)18. Gaming: Far Cry 2 (HD4000)19. Gaming: Total War Shogun 2 (HD4000)20. Gaming: F1 2011 (HD4000)21. Power Consumption22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

Some of our other reviews today focus on power consumption when featuring a discrete graphics card. This particular review however uses the Intel 3770K processor with integrated HD4000 graphics, so it is ideal to measure efficiency under ‘real world' situations.

Firstly we measure power drain at the socket when the system is configured in the default state, idling at the desktop. Secondly we load the processor with Cinebench R11.5 64 bit. Lastly we overclock the system to 4.6ghz with 1.25 volts and load the 3770K again with Cinebench R11.5 64 bit.

Intel's 3770k is certainly an efficient design, with this system only demanding 58 watts at the socket when idling at the desktop. This rises to 110watts when powering through the Cinebench R11.5 benchmark. Increasing the core voltage to 1.25v and overclocking to 4.6ghz caused the power demand to rise to 149 watts when running Cinebench R11.5 64 bit. Very impressive results, im sure you will agree.

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