Asus mATX ROG Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard

 
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.


 

SuperPI is the benchmark of choice for many overclockers. It’s lightweight to download and can give a quick indication on how good a system is at number crunching. Once again, testing was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.


 

PassMark is a popular benchmarking suite which test all aspect of PC hardware.The CPU test examines Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more. Each CPU test was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.


 
 
Results Analysis

The Gene certainly does not disgrace itself when pitched up against the full size motherboards from the other manufacturers, indeed beating the lesser ones in out CPU tests albeit not by any significant margin.

Let’s see if there is anything to separate the board with our run of memory benchmarks…