MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX Review (w/ 4770k / HD7990 / 2,933mhz DDR3)

1. Introduction2. MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (Packaging & Bundle)3. MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (Board Layout and Features)4. Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400mhz, HX750 and H100i5. MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (The Bios)6. MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (Overclocking)7. MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (Super High Res Gallery)8. Testing Methodology9. System: PCMark 710. System: PCMark 811. System: 3DMark Vantage12. System: 3DMark 1113. System: 3DMark14. System: Unigine Heaven Benchmark15. System: Unigine Valley Benchmark16. Processor/Memory: SiSoft Sandra17. Processor: CineBench R11.5 64 bit18. Processor: 3D Rendering19. Processor: Media Encoding20. Motherboard: USB 3.0 Performance21. Motherboard: SATA 6Gbps performance22. Gaming: Tomb Raider (2560x1600)23. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs (2560x1600)24. Gaming: GRID 2 (2560x1600 & UH IQ)25. Gaming: Far Cry 3 (2560x1600)26. Gaming: Crysis 3 (5760x1080)27. Gaming: BioShock Infinite (5760x1080)28. G.Skill Trident X Memory overclocking29. Closing Thoughts30. 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 4770k is a good processor for rendering, showing improvements over the previous 3770k design. When overclocked to 4.5ghz the rendering time is decreased noticeably.

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