ASUS Sabertooth X58 Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will be the system specific benchmarks.

 

Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:

• Resolution: 2750x2048
• Quality: 500
• Limit Memory use: 512MB

 

 

The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lower is Better

 

WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 100MB and 500MB files to test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds. Additionally, I will use the built-in benchmark as a comparison.

 

ZIP:

Lower is Better

 

RAR:

Lower is Better

 

Geekbench:

 

Apophysis test results are all similar at stock while the Sabertooth board took the lead in the overclocked testing. The WinRAR benchmark doesn't seem to be completely stable although performance was good and Geekbench has the Sabertooth taking the lead again.