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AIDA64 Engineer
AIDA64 Engineer is a multi-featured software suite for diagnostics, stress testing, benchmarking, software auditing and various other measurement parameters. We use AIDA64 Engineer to benchmark memory throughput and latency.
The previously mentioned lower CPU cache ratio plays out more in synthetic memory benchmarks, ASRock's Fatal1ty X99 Professional Gaming i7 is up to 10% slower in AIDA64.
Even after manually adjusting the CPU cache ratio to 31x to match ASUS' and MSI's X99 boards, we were only able to increase memory performance to 61,273, 69,354 and 64,105 MB/s read/write/copy. Latency improved to 61.5 ns. Those numbers are still slower than both ASUS and MSI but are improved, particularly writing bandwidth.
SiSoft Sandra
SiSoft Sandra 2016 is a multi-function utility program that supports remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, mobile devices and networks. We use the SiSoft Sandra memory bandwidth test to give us an extra set of memory bandwidth results.
SiSoft Sandra was less sensitive to different cache ratios – improving to 56 GB/s aggregate, 54.9 GB/s integer and 57 GB/s float.
In summary, ASRock seems to be a few percentage points slower in memory benchmarks even when manually adjusting for the CPU cache ratio deficit.
Any idea of price?
Yes it’s discussed on the final page – around £270 in the UK and $260 in the US.
260 USD isn’t 270 GBP, even after the eu referendum bollocks.
Id more likely expect something like;
260 USD / 220 GBP
320 USD / 270 GBP
Wouldn’t make sense at all for it to be more in GBP than USD.
I know how the currency conversion (plus being British tax) works. But that’s what retailers are selling the board for. It says in the review that ASRock’s pricing is more competitive in North America than it is in the UK.
It’s 324 euros here in Belgium.
This one looks good, but if I was to go with X99 on a budget I would consider their Taichi model.
I do like the looks of Taichi. Even Fatal1ty looking good, Taichi Black and white looks really good.
I was pleasantly surprised when I got my FX990 Killer, it is one solid board with wonderful audio and I really do like the UEFI set up way more than Asus or MSi. My only complaint with mine is the rather terrible northbridge heatsink design, it’s just a stylized block of anodized aluminum with 3 grooves cut in it, I could have gone down to the 970FX board with all better heatsinks, USB 3.1 with a type C port and support for 220watt CPU’s, but I would have given up a far more superior chipset (I run multiple PCIe devices, wireless, a USB 3.1 card and 2 different graphics cards), additional power to PCIe and audio
Really good stuff coming out from them, love their mobos.