Intel Core i7 3820 and ASrock Extreme4-M review

1. Introduction2. The Intel Core i7 38203. ASrock Extreme4-M Motherboard4. Super High Resolution Gallery5. Bios and Overclocking6. Testing Methodology7. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage8. Synthetic: 3DMark 119. Synthetic: PCMark 710. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark11. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra12. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit13. Synthetic: SSD Performance14. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark 2.015. Real World: 3D Rendering16. Real World: Media Encoding17. Real World: BluRay Playback18. Real World: Flash HD Playback19. Real World: Handbrake 9.520. Gaming: F1 2011 (Single 7970)21. Gaming: Lost Planet 2 (Single 7970)22. Gaming: Alien V Predator (Crossfire)23. Gaming: Far Cry 2 (Crossfire)24. Technical: Power Consumption25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

V2011 is the first release of 3DStudio Max to fully support the Windows 7 operating system. This is a professional level tool that many people use for work purposes and our test will show any possible differences between board design today.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques to help bring designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results.

Streamlined, more intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

Major new features:

• Slate: A node based material editor.
• Quicksilver: Hardware renderer with multithreaded rendering engine that utilizes both CPU and GPU.
• Extended Graphite Modeling Toolset
• 3ds Max Composite: A HDRI-capable compositor based on Autodesk Toxik.
• Viewport Canvas toolset for 3D and 2D texture painting directly in the viewport
• Object Painting: use 3D geometry as ‘brushes’ on other geometry
• Character Animation Toolkit (CAT): now integrated as part of the base package
• Autodesk Material Library: Over 1200 new photometrically accurate shaders
• Additional file format support: includes native support for Sketchup, Inventor
• FBX file linking
• Save to Previous Release (2010)

We created a new 8200×3200 scene and recorded the time for the hardware to finalise the render.

The Quad Channel memory architecture shows benefits with this specific test, delivering a time six seconds faster than the Core i7 2700k. When overclocked to 4.5ghz, the time is reduced to 6 minutes and 22 seconds which is around 11 seconds slower than the reference clocked Core i7 990X Extreme Edition.

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