Asus mATX ROG Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard

 
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench – a tool developed independently of Crysis – we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
 
 

 
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast game play. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU’s using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
 
 

 

Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning “world”, “earth” or “living” in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
 

 

 
 

Results Analysis

While not dominating the pack by any stretch of the imagination, the Rampage II Gene does score highly and is among the top performers in each benchmarks, indeed leading the pack in our Far Cry 2 test. The Rampage II is more than just a gaming motherboard though as our previous results have shown and has a lot more to offer than just an increase in frames per second. Overall though it has been a ‘Topsy turvy’ display so it will make interesting reading to see how PCMark Vantage interprets the motherboard.

Let’s take a look at it’s overall performance…