Audio
Asus doesn’t represent the Z87 Gryphon to be a high end audio backed motherboard. We don’t see any of the big features that we saw on the Formula V for example. Even so, we still put it to the test to see how it performed both with our audio test as well as subjective testing aka seeing how it sounds through headphones. Surprisingly the Z87 Gryphon didn’t do too bad at all in our testing. In fact considering the fact that MSI had upgraded the onboard audio on the MPower the Gryphon did really well against it. I would love to see the Gryphon have a built in headphone amp though, that is a feature that anyone who games or enjoys a little music at their desk can enjoy.
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Frequency Response |
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Noise Level |
Dynamic range |
Total harmonic distortion |
Intermodulation distortion |
Stereo crosstalk |
Intermodulation distortion + noise |
Frequency Response |
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MSI Z87-G45 Gaming |
0.11 |
-.1 |
-83.1 |
83.1 |
0.13 |
0.258 |
-82.8 |
0.324 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
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Asus Z87 Pro |
0.2 |
-.06 |
-88.3 |
88.5 |
0.132 |
0.067 |
-80.1 |
0.052 |
0.1 |
0 |
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Asus Z87 Plus |
0.17 |
-.21 |
-90.2 |
90.2 |
0.253 |
0.21 |
-85 |
0.149 |
0.1 |
-0.2 |
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MSI Z87 MPower |
0.12 |
-2 |
-90.1 |
89.9 |
0.0069 |
0.013 |
-86.6 |
0.02 |
0.1 |
-0.2 |
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Asus Z87 Gryphon |
0.02 |
-.07 |
-87.3 |
87.4 |
0.147 |
0.081 |
-79.8 |
0.06 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
