Test Rig and Procedures
Intel Z270 Test System |
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Motherboard |
Asus Crosshair VI Hero |
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Cooling |
Noctua NH-U12S for cooling Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste |
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Memory |
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8 16GB 3000MHz @2666 |
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Storage |
Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD |
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Video Card |
AMD RX480 |
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Power Supply |
Thermaltake 850w |
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Case |
Microcool Banchetto 101 Test bench |
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OS |
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
CPU Testing Procedures |
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Hitman 2016 |
1080p – Ultra Setting – DX12 – Vsync Turned off using built-in benchmark |
Ashes of the Singularity |
1080p – Standard quality setting, DX12, built in benchmark on the CPU-focused setting |
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided |
1080p – Ultra Setting – DX11 – Vsync Turned off using built-in benchmark |
Dolphin 5.0 Benchmark |
For information on configuration, view this thread |
3DMark Fire Strike |
Physics Score – Performance benchmark |
7-Zip |
Built-in benchmark set to 32MB, run 4 passes |
Google Octane 2.0 |
http://chromium.github.io/octane/ |
Jetstream |
http://browserbench.org/JetStream/ |
wPrime |
1024M |
X264 HD Benchmark |
Pass 1 and Pass 2 |
Cinebench R15 |
CPU and CPU (Single Core results) |
Passmark 8 |
CPU Mark Score |
PCMark 8 |
Home test is run both with and without OpenCL |
Power Usage |
Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and wPrime to put the CPU under load |
Temps |
Prime95 to load, motherboard software to read temperature |