ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 Intel Z77 Ivy Bridge motherboard review with Core i5-3570K

System Configuration

System Configuration

Intel Z77

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 / 2 x 2048 MB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 (2GB) running DDR3-2400 at C11-13-11-30-2T (XMP Profile 1)
BIOSTAR TZ77XE4 / 2 x 2048 MB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 (2GB) running DDR3-2133 at C10-12-10-1T
Intel Core i5 3570K at 3.4GHz
HIS Radeon 7970 Graphics card with Catalyst 12.4
Kingston SSDNOW V Series 64GB
Windows 7 Ultimate

Benchmark Tests Run

Memory Benchmarks / Content Based

– SiSoft Sandra 2012 – Memory, Arithmetic, Multimedia and Transcoding
– Cinebench 11.5 Win64 – CPU and OpenGL

Graphics

– 3Dmark Vantage (E)
– Hawx Demo
– The Last Remnant
– Unigine Heaven Demo v2.1

With Virtu MVP

– 3DMark11 (X)
– 3DMark Vantage (H)
– Heaven Demo v2.1 (1920×1080)
– AVP (1920×1080)