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Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.
Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.
Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:
- Multiple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 / OpenGL) render
- Cross-platform: MS Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) / Linux
- Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
- Multicore CPU support
- Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
- Powerful C++ API
- Comprehensive performance profiling system
- Flexible XML-based data structures
We test at 1080p so that all video cards can be compared throughout our reviews. Obviously driver updates might enhance performance slightly over time, but as a rule, its a useful way for us to present the findings.
Staggering levels of performance from the Crossfire and SLI solutions, with two HD6990's scoring an average of over 147 frames per second, a new record in our labs.
I shall read this all later, but I skipped through some pages. thats a phenomenal looking board. all the liquid nitrogen touches etc too, very clever. Asus are tough to beat in this market.
damn, what a setup. thats a wet dream configuration that is. you reviewers are lucky SOBS 🙂
Hiya Zardon, first review of this, love it ! Any ideas on when its released? I was on scan to order it, but its not there yet ?
HI Mannie, not sure of the date tbh. I just was told the price. I would say it will be released shortly. Enjoy !
opps posted this in the wrong place. As I was saying erm.. be sure to keep looking on local stores for this, numbers will be limited and everyone wants it 🙂
perhaps im picking holes in this, but the use of a card means you lose a slot on the board. im not sure that briliant.
£400 for a motherboard. ouch, but hey if you can afford a 990x I doubt you would care.
well out of my bank balance, but good reading, cant hurt to dream
Exotic board, bit suprised they didnt put more sata 6 ports on the mobo, even 4 ?
This seems about 75 quid less than the Assassin and I cant really see why. I think the assassin has a slightly better cooling system on the pcb but apart from this its very similar in design.
Not like asus to be cheaper, even if its relative in this price bracket
Astonishing product. Asus really are such a brilliant company. Their high end stuff is just so incredible
Asus are the best, no doubt about it 😉
boards like this are the reason im a tech addict.
1% of the people reading this could afford it. (well maybe a bit higher on Kitguru).
I swore I would never change boards until the next generation, but my 980x is screaming out for this mobo. I just got a D14 heatsink so its even more tempting now …… thank god you cant buy them yet. my credit card is hiding in the drawer.
Very impressive indeed, well worth the cost
Good review , Asus do it again, shame there are only two 6 gbps sat a ports.
The bios is a great design, it’s why I always buy Asus boards. But I just went for a 2600k, these CPUs cost too much
They certainly didn’t skimp on the boards power settings. I’m tempted to pick one up for my 980x
Phenomenal, but it’s mighty expensive, even for what you get.
I actually think it’s 80 quid less than the assassin from gb. Seems better value , but it’s all mean ingress for this target Market who don’t really care that much about cost. Gigabyte assassin looks to have nicer heatsinks but i don’t like the green scheme at all
I will be ordering one, been waitin a while for it to come out now.
I don’t know why people say this is overpriced. A standard x58 is 240. This is well worth the extra 140
It makes the rampage iii 3 extreme look gay lol
I don’t think so – pair the R3E with a LynxTWO card, and this one will look like gay in black. But hey, with that audio card on board – it will cost you at least 1,700.00-1,800.00$ and I allready have one…
Nice review but two questions:
Can you confirm if the new Marvel 9182 SATA 3 supports TRIM for SSD’s? I’m asking as I know the older one that is commonly used on X58 boards (9128) does not.
As well I am curious if you got the Wi Fi going, as I have heard of few reports of it being problematic.
Thanks!