Sapphire Pure Platinum Z77K Review

Testing:

ScienceMark tests real-world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we run the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.

Higher is Better!

Cinebench 10 is useful for testing your system, CPU, and OpenGL capabilities using the software program, CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.

Higher is Better

Cinebench 11.5

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HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.

Higher is Better

Lower is Better

PCMark 7 is the latest iteration of Futuremark's popular PCMark system performance tool. This version is designed for use on Windows 7 PCs and features a combination of 25 different workloads to accurately measure the performance of all PCs from laptops to desktops.

Higher is Better

As you might have guessed there is not a lot to differentiate the performance of each of these boards in the majority of the system testing. Each of the boards performs in a specific envelope both at stock and overclocked speeds.