Our Test Procedures and Test Benches
Our CPU Test Benches for each CPU tested | |
Intel Socket 1151 (Skylake) |
MSI Z170A Gaming M5 Kingston HyperX 3000K 240GB SSD Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB DDR4 Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Thermaltake Grand 850W PSU Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Dimastech Test Bench |
Intel Socket 1150 (Broadwell) |
MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Kingston HyperX 3000k 240GB SSD Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Thermaltake Grand 850W PSU Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Dimastech Test Bench |
AMD Socket AM3+ |
Asrock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional 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 |
Intel Socket 2011v3 (Haswell-E) |
Asus X99-Deluxe Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4 4x4GB OCZ Vector 150 120GB SSD Western Digital Velociraptor 600GB HDD (for steam) Thermaltake Grand 850W PSU Noctua NH-U12S heatsink Nvidia GTX 780 Video Card Dimastech Test Bench |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
CPU Testing Procedures | |
Bioshock Infinite | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
Tomb Raider | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
Hitman: Absolution | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
Sleeping Dogs | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Xtreme” quality setting. |
3DMark Fire Strike | Physics Score – Performance benchmark |
wPrime | 1024M and 32M |
X264 HD Benchmark | Pass 1 and Pass 2 |
Cinebench | CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Passmark 8 | CPU Mark Score |
PCMark 7 | Full benchmark Suite |
Power Usage | Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and Wprime to put the cpu under load |
PCMark 8 | Home test is run both with and without OpenCL |
Temps | Prime95 to load, motherboard software to read temperature |
Onboard Testing Procedures | |
Bioshock Infinite | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Tomb Raider | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Hitman: Absolution | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
Sleeping Dogs | Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool on the “Medium” quality setting at 1080p |
3DMark Fire Strike | Performance setting – GPU Score |
Unreal Heaven Benchmark 4.0 | Extreme preset |
Unreal Valley Benchmark 1.0 | Extreme HD Preset |
F1 2013 | Ultra Preset |
Cinebench R11.5 | OpenGL benchmark |
Cinebench R15 | OpenGL benchmark |
GRID Autosport | Ultra and Medium presets at 1080p |