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3DMark
We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.
Sandra Processor Arithmetic
Sandra Memory Bandwidth
Gigabyte's X99M-Gaming 5 has no problem keeping pace with full-sized ATX competitors in the 3DMark and Sandra benchmarks.
Memory bandwidth on Gigabyte's mATX part is slightly higher than that of the competition's. That could be related to shorter path distance between the board's four DIMM slots and an LGA 2011-3 CPU.
ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer seems like the Best bet with a 4x m.2
I have been having that odd GPU load crashing issue, and I was beginning to think that I was going crazy. System is totally stable otherwise, Aida64 for 10+ hours with no issues, browse the web, watch movies, etc no problems. Game for more than a couple of minutes and crash, every time.
At first I thought it was my XFX R9 270X, so I grabbed my other one (I pulled these out of a crossfire setup on my other system) and same issues occurred. I was just starting think about returning motherboard when I came across this post. I am going to try this fix when I get home and see if it resolves the issue for me.