To fully test the abilities of a given motherboard we have used a blend of synthetic and custom ‘real world’ benchmarks. Be they work/office orientated or home/gaming orientated all play a role in providing as clear and concise a picture of exactly what a given motherboard has to offer potential buyers.
All games were patched to their latest version. The OS was a fresh clean install of Windows 11 with all latest hotfixes, patches and updates applied. All games were tested at the most popular resolution of 1080P (1920×1080) and run a minimum of 4 times. Before testing Unigine’s Valley benchmark was run for 15 minutes to ‘warm up’ the video card. This was done to ensure that long term performance and not short term performance is being illustrated.
The applications and games used for testing were:
3DMark
Assassins Creed: Valhalla
Adobe Premier Pro
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Borderlands 3
Cinebench R20
Cinebench R23
CPU-Z
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
DaVinci Resolve Studio
Handbrake
Metro: Exodus
OpenSCAD
POV-Ray
Red Dead Redemption 2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
SolidWorks
TrueCrypt
Watch Dogs: Legion
WinRAR
Witcher 3
x264 HD Benchmark
The Ryzen 9000-series Testbed:
• Windows 11
• Motherboard: MPG X870E CARBON WIFI
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9000-series (various)
• RAM: 32GB (16GBx2) Corsair Vengeance Memory DDR5-6400
• Cooling: Artic Liquid Freezer II 420 w/ 3 fans
• Video Card(s): ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3090Ti
• SSD: 1x Crucial MX500 1TB
• Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Special thanks to Artic for their support and providing the Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 A-RGB White edition – it is a beast and made things so much easier.
