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In this review we are going to benchmark the i7-3770K at reference clock speeds and when overclocked to 4.7 GHz. We will be comparing it to a similarly clocked i7-2700K chip. Both of these processors were cooled using a Be Quiet! Shadow Rock TopFlow CPU Cooler.
Test System:
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K and Intel Core i7-2700K
Motherboard: Biostar Z77XE4
Cooler: Be Quiet! Shadow Rock TopFlow
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-4
Memory: 8 GB G.Skill @ 1600 MHz 9-9-9-24
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6950
Power Supply: NZXT Hale90 750W
System Drive: Intel 520 Series 240 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Software:
PCMark 7
3DMark 11
SiSoft Sandra 2012 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT 3
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Nice to see a different company being reviewed on Kitguru. never actually had one of their boards but this one looks quite good to me.
Wow another Z77 board. Id love to know right now, how many Z77 boards are in the channel. must be at least 40.
Good looking board, but not sure I would buy biostar, have they any UK warranty terms etc? I know ASUS have a good return/replace system via their paretners?
MediaExpresso’s chart says higher scores mean better performance.
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I think you might be mistaken. The faster the encoding time, the less time you have to wait.