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3DMark is Futuremark's latest benchmark. It can be used to benchmark and compare everything from mobile devices, such as smart phones, tablets and laptops, to high-end gaming systems. The benchmark is available for Windows, Windows RT Android and iOS.
With 3 separate tests, each of which is intended to be used alongside a specific classification of hardware, 3DMark is a very versatile benchmark. Ice Storm is intended to be used with mobile devices, Cloud Gate is good for use with laptops and home PCs, and Fire Strike can be used to push the performance of gaming PCs.
We used the ‘Fire Strike' benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.
Futuremark's 3DMark shows more strong performance for the Z87 Killer motherboard. A physics score of around 11,200 is almost identical to the scores that we were seeing from Z87 motherboards on our old LGA 1150 test platform.
Thats a great board for the money.
Wow! Look at those graphs!
There… are no comparisons at all! Sweet! Thanks for wasting my time.
Hi Chris,
This was the first board tested on an updated system, hence the lack of comparison numbers (as stated on the testing methodology page).
Our latest motherboard review includes comparison data for other Z87 motherboards, including the ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer. It can be viewed here: http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/luke-hill/msi-z87-g43-gaming-motherboard-review/.
Luke
Stay away of As Rock and the fatality boards.
They do not perform any quality control. Mine was blown up and the copper lines on the back side were literally falling in pieces.
I contacted the client support and they confirmed this was normal…. WFT!!!!!
I have never seen conductive lines of an electronics board detaching never ever.
Do not waste your money and time. avoid AsRock