Test Rig and Procedures
Intel Z270 Test System |
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Motherboard |
Asus X299 ROG Rampage VI Apex |
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Cooling |
Noctua NH-U12S for cooling Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste |
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Memory |
Kingston 2666 MHz DDR4 Fury quad channel 4x8Gb |
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Storage |
Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD |
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Video Card |
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti |
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Power Supply |
Thermaltake 850w |
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Case |
Dimastech Test Bench |
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OS |
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
CPU Testing Procedures |
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Team Fortress 2 |
1080p – high, very high, high, reflect world, high, enabled, 8x msaa, x16, multicore on. Testing is then run with this benchmark |
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation |
1080p – Standard quality setting, DX12, built in benchmark on the CPU-focused setting |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands |
Built-in Benchmark, 1080p, High detail 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 |
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 10 |
Normal test ran, not the express or extended |
AIDA64 |
Memory, Cache, and FLOPS testing done with built-in GPGPU and Memory benchmarks |
Power Usage |
Idle and load testing using a Kill-A-Watt and wPrime to put the CPU under load |
Temps |
Aida64 stability test to load and to record temperature readings |