All results were obtained at 4600MHz s on an un-optimized Windows7 64-bit. These are our results, yours may vary
so only use these as a guideline for a similarly configured system.
Cinebench
11.5
Super Pi 8M
3DMark11
Heaven
Xtreme
Preset
Hard Reset
DX9
Just Cause 2
DX10
Wprime 1024
ASUS Crosshair
V Formula-Z
Overclocked
8.64
3m45.249
10334
2059.06
92.2
157.5
209.945
ASUS Crosshair V
Formula-Z
6.95
4m36.885
9809
2041.885
80
142.54
260.832
It’s not anything obscure,
but it essentially has the
memory trace lengths on
the board of equal size. So
latency is improved and thus
performance as well. In our
testing we didn’t see it make
much of a difference in read
or write performance, but
we must say that the AIDA
64 latency results proved
favourable by a couple
of nanoseconds. We are
sceptical in accrediting this
advantage to the technology
as ASUS boards regularly
offer better latency than
many competing boards.
Be that as it may, you’ll not
suffer any performance
penalty because of this
design and if anything will
gain in efficiency.
Other than these
few features and a
comprehensive BIOS (easily
the best around) the only
limitation you will come
across when using this
board will be due to the CPU,
memory or just user error
but certainly not any short
coming of the board.
For the gamers, well you
should already be aware of
what this board offers where
your gaming is concerned.
INTEL Gigabit LAN, Supreme
FX III (Expected more but
certainly better than most
on-board audio solutions)
and the best looking AM3+
motherboard around. We
won’t kid you and tell you
that you’ll somehow improve
your gaming prowess with
this board over another
one, but the truth is that for
the ultimate AMD gaming
machine, this has to be the
board of choice.
It costs almost exactly
the same as the FX 8350,
which is to say affordable,
but with that you get plenty
of features and a seemingly
unparalleled board when
it comes to performance,
overclocking features and
just about anything anyone
would ever expect out of a
motherboard.
We here have no complaints
about the Crosshair V
Formula-Z and would
definitely recommend it for
those interested in the platform.
There just isn’t a better high end
board to pair with the FX 8350
than this one.
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