“There are of course other areas we needed to consider,
like how these boards behaved in subzero conditions and
if one could achieve higher clocks than the other. We put
the boards up against each other in a subzero test, both
were able to push our CPU past 6 GHz and both didn’t
have a problem with very low temperatures.”
Benchmarks
We ran a small array of benchmarks that demonstrated performance of all
aspects of the system and allow easy comparisons in future reviews. We
performed these on the industry standard 3600 MHz on an un-optimized fresh
install of Windows 7.
Benchmark
Gigabyte X58A-UD9
ASUS Rampage III Extreme
SuperPI 32m
9m 19.246
9m 23.021s
3DMark06
25514 marks
SM2: 9858
SM3: 11443
CPU: 8253
25384 marks
SM2: 9833
SM3: 11439
CPU: 8077
3DMark Vantage
P20626 marks
GPU: 17971
CPU: 37036
P21030 marks
GPU: 18394
CPU: 36898
Everest
Read: 19742 MBs
Write: 15382 MBs
Copy: 17680 MBs
Latency: 28.7 ns
Read: 19606 MBs
Write: 15444 MBs
Copy: 17570 MBs
Latency: 28.6
Summary
There are so many more factors that
need to be considered when putting
two motherboards directly against
each other than one would assume at
face value. After all the testing and at
the end of the day the UD9 and R3E are
both show pieces for the respective
companies and only a handful of users
would actually consider these for their
gaming builds or even benchmarking.
We are simply looking at it from an
extreme overclocking point of view
at which board will offer us the best
functionality and options for achieving
the highest and most efficient
overclocks. Simply put, the UD9 is the
board to beat. It has the right layout,
the ability to run 4 graphics cards
at maximum speed and it’s faster in
SuperPI.
Under extreme cooling we find
the UD9 feels a lot more stable and
responsive, it has the most predictable
behaviour, doing exactly what you need
it too and is just a dream to use. When
we look at maximizing out investment
with the R3E, we find that it can be
upgraded with the ROG Xpander and
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