ASRock 890GX Extreme4 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. The ASRock 890GX Extreme4 Motherboard3. The BIOS4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Vantage6. PCMark Vantage7. Super Pi8. SiSoft Sandra 20109. Cinebench R1010. Cinebench R11.511. KitGuru PS Bench V1 (4)12. Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

For as long as we can remember enthusiasts around the world have been keen to see how their systems perform with many commercially available benchmarks from such companies as Futuremark.

While these applications are extremely useful to a wide audience sometimes it can be helpful to focus on a ‘real world’ application which many of us use on an almost daily basis.

You can get the KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4) here. Please note lower times are better as this means less time is taken by the system to process the commands.

	Stock	OC @ 3.48Ghz
1. Texturiser (1)	5.2	4.4
2. CMYK	4	3.3
3. RGB	4	3.3
4. Ink Outlines	43.1	36.5
5. Dust & Stratches	4.6	4
6. Watercolor	43	36.4
7. Texturiser (2)	5.4	4.7
8. Stained Glass	76.3	69.9
9. Mosiac Tiles	25	20.4
10. Extrude	334	297.6
11. Rough Pastels	25.7	21.4
12. Smart Blur	167.1	127.4
13. Underpainting	66.3	54.1
14. Mosiac Tiles	25.7	21.1
15. Spherize	5.8	5.1
16. Palette Knife	43.8	46.4
17. Sponge	55.7	45.8
18. Smudge Stick	11.6	9.9
Total	946.3	811.7

The extra performance available when overclocking is made clear in our Photoshop benchmark with a decent improvement in performace achieved in almost every part of the test.  In fact the overclocked CPU completed the test in more than two minutes less than at stock speed.

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