Our Test Procedures and Test Benches
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Our CPU Test Benches for each CPU tested |
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AMD Socket FM2+ |
Asus A88-Pro Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U14S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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AMD Socket FM2 |
Asus F2 A85-V Pro OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U14S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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Intel Socket 1150 (Devil’s Canyon) |
Asus Z97-A Kingston HyperX 3000k 240GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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Intel Socket 1150 (Haswell) |
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Cooler Master V1000 Power Supply Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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Intel Socket 1155 (Ivy Bridge) |
Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram 1600Mhz 2x2Gb Intel DZ77GA-70K OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD Noctua NH-C14 heatsink Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850Watt PSU Two Nvidia GTX580’s for SLI testing Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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Intel Socket 2011 (Sandy Bridge-E) |
Intel DX79SI Motherboard Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz Quad Channel Ram Two Kingston HyperX SATA 3 SSD’s in RAID 0 Intel Active Thermal Solution RTS2011LC Water-cooling Cooler Master Silent PRO Gold 1200w PSU Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Highspeedpc Test Bench |
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Intel Socket 1155 (Sandy Bridge) |
Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram 1600Mhz 2x2Gb FATAL1TY P67 Profess1onal Series Motherboard OCZ Agility 60Gb SSD Noctua NH-C14 heatsink Cooler Master Silent Pro M 850Watt PSU Sapphire HD6970 BF:BC2 Edition for AMD testing Two Nvidia GTX580’s for SLI testing Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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Intel Socket 1366 |
Gigabyte G-1 Assassin Gaming Motherboard EVGA Classified GTX580 Video card Cooler Master HAFX Nvidia Edition Case Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 Ram 1600MHz Cool-It Water-cooling Cooler Master Silent PRO Gold 1200w PSU Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue SSD |
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CPU Testing Procedures |
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Bioshock Infinite |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
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Tomb Raider |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
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Hitman: Absolution |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
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Sleeping Dogs |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
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3DMark Fire Strike |
Physics Score – Performance benchmark |
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wPrime |
1024M and 32M |
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X264 HD Benchmark |
Pass 1 and Pass 2 |
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Cinebench |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
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Passmark 8 |
CPU Mark Score |
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PCMark 7 |
Full benchmark Suite |
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Power Usage |
Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and Wprime to put the cpu under load |
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PCMark 8 |
Home test is run both with and without OpenCL |
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Onboard GPU Testing Procedures (for CPu’s that have built in GPU’s) |
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3DMark Fire Strike |
Performance setting |
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Unreal Heaven Benchmark 4.0 |
Extreme preset |
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Cinebench |
OpenGL benchmark |
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F1 2013 |
Ultra preset |
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Bioshock Infinite |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting. |
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Tomb Raider |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting. |
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Hitman: Absolution |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting. |
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Sleeping Dogs |
Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting. |
