Performance

Despite all advantages from the CPU overclocking, a lot of computer users prefer using their systems in nominal mode. Moreover, many of them don’t even bother to configure their systems for maximum performance in their particular case: they don’t change memory frequency or timings, do not use any optimizations, do not disconnect the unused devices. Therefore, in order to check how the mainboard adjusts for the most optimal operational mode without any user interference, we loaded the default BIOS settings and barely changed anything. Foxconn BloodRAGE mainboard set a little lower memory timings, while Asus P6T pushed the clock frequency multiplier to 22 a little more often due to Turbo Boost technology. However, in the end both mainboards performed almost the same:

There is nothing surprising that two mainboards working in the same conditions performed almost identically. However, it may sometimes change during overclocking, even if we don’t leave the system config to the mainboard but carefully adjust most of the important parameters manually. Let’s see if the performs differs during system overclocking up to 3.8GHz CPU frequency and 1810MHz memory frequency:

I was surprised to see how far ahead Foxconn BloodRAGE was in the first two Everest memory subsystem tests. However, noticeable differences in synthetic benchmarks do not often project over the performance in real applications. This time, the systems again performed very similarly in all other test applications. I have to say that this is pretty anticipated, but also very pleasing result: Foxconn BloodRAGE is just as good as its competitor in all work modes. However, I can’t say that these two boards are identical in everything. The results of our power consumption tests turned out totally unexpected.