ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX Motherboard Review

Testing:

Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and performs about 28,000 sets of calculations that represent many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is how long it takes to refresh the sheet.

Lower Is Better

POV Ray 3.7: This program features a built-in benchmark that renders an image using Ray Tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing), enabling the workload to be spread across the cores for quicker completion.

Higher Is Better

PCMark 7: PCMark is a full-PC benchmark based are real-world tasks, including a series of tests ranging from web browsing to gaming graphics to browsing music. The suite is designed to give you an overall view of system performance based on scores from the different areas of testing.

Higher Is Better

Again, in the Office, POV Ray and PCMark 7 tests, the Crosshair was the leader.