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Asus M4A87TD/USB3 Motherboard Review

Cinebench R10 has since been replaced by V11.5, but many people have a better indication of relative performance by the results from R10 – after all it has been around for years. We will however include R11.5 results on the following page. For those who don’t know Cinebench is not just a mere synthetic benchmarking application, it is based on the rendering engine from Cinema 4D.

The CPU test renders a 3D scene photo-realistically while applying performance intensive functions such as area light sources, procedural shaders, Ambient Occlusion and multi level reflections. Especially when used on faster, multi core CPU systems, MAXON CINEBENCH R10 delivers much more accurate results.

Cinebench R11.5 is the newest revision of the popular benchmark from Maxon. The test scenario uses all of your system’s processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene (from the viral “No Keyframes” animation by AixSponza). This scene makes use of various different algorithms to stress all available processor cores.

In fact, CINEBENCH can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor.

Cinebench analysis the CPU rendering performance which is greatly boosted by having six cores available; the scores wouldn't be as impressive with two, three or four core CPUs.  In Cinebench R10, we saw speedups of 4.41x and 4.93x with stock and overclocked setups respectively in the multi core tests.

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8 comments

  1. What a stunning price. I know a lot of people never use dual graphics solutions so this is more than ideal.

  2. Good feature set and great price, always buy asus boards meself.

  3. Asus and MSI make the best mobos on the market, bar none

  4. The only downside is the sata ports pointing upwards. bad design decision in 2011, even on a budget board.

  5. Very solid looking board, shame about the sata design, thats rather unusual for asus even on a budget model.

  6. Great stuff. ideal for a low cost performance system.

  7. Finally, a motherboard most people can afford !

  8. have this board SATA 3.0 ?

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