Asus M4A87TD/USB3 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. The M4A87TD/USB3 Motherboard3. Testing Methodlogy, BIOS and Overclocking4. PCMark Vantage5. 3DMark Vantage and 116. SiSoftware Sandra 20117. Cinebench R10 and R11.58. Super Pi Mod 1.59. KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark V1 (4)10. Media Encoding: Cyberlink MediaEspresso 611. Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC12. Closing Thoughts13. 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 @ 3.50GHZ
1. Texturiser (1)	4.8	3.6
2. CMYK	2.0	1.6
3. RGB	2.5	1.9
4. Ink Outlines	41.2	34.7
5. Dust & Stratches	3.2	2.7
6. Watercolor	41.3	34.9
7. Texturiser (2)	4.7	3.8
8. Stained Glass	52.4	44.7
9. Mosiac Tiles	30.9	18.8
10. Extrude	342.8	234.2
11. Rough Pastels	26.5	20.1
12. Smart Blur	129.5	119.6
13. Underpainting	48.7	52.5
14. Mosiac Tiles	31.8	19.6
15. Spherize	5.0	4.5
16. Palette Knife	43.7	45.1
17. Sponge	53.0	44.8
18. Smudge Stick	10.6	8.4
Total	874.6	695.5

Some components of the Photoshop benchmark benefit more than others from the increased clock speed when overclocked.  But there is still a significant reduction in the time taken to complete the benchmark when the system is overclocked.

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